Tammara Webber
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.Collection: Love
What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?Collection: Feelings
He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.Collection: Pain
I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.Collection: Attention
The key to lying skillfully is never lie to yourself.Collection: Lying
Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.Collection: Alcohol
No offense to hot girls everywhere- but newsflash- there are hot girls everywhere.Collection: Girl
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.Collection: Sad
I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.Collection: Hurt
Brooke?” I puff out a sigh. “For chrissake, Reid, who do you think it is? And haven’t you put me into your contacts yet?” “Yeah... It just says Satan, though, and I forgot I’d assigned that title to you.Collection: Thinking
Look - guys are dogs. Women have known this since the beginning of time. Guys don't want to be chased; they chase. So if you're going to catch one, you have to know how to make him chase you.Collection: Dog
I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.Collection: Beer
No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to reason that at the same time, other people were splitting up. And the night Kennedy broke my heart, somewhere - maybe right there in my dorm, other people were falling in love.Collection: Falling In Love
Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.Collection: Growing Up
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.Collection: Guy
Time would not change what I was feeling--or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.Collection: Missing
sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.Collection: Reality
No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.Collection: Grief
Look at me, Emma." Her eyes are full, the lids heavy. "Graham," she breathes. "I need you to hear me." Cradling her head in my hands, thumbs sweeping her tears away, I stare into her eyes. "I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.Collection: Eye
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.Collection: Real
The way he kissed me felt like a brand. Like he was tattooing himself under my skin.Collection: Skins
Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my shoulders. “We are not,” his voice is a gentle tremor, “breaking upCollection: Running
I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.Collection: Hurt
Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.Collection: Heart
He took one of my hands in his, and I brought the other to his face, wondering how his eyes could look like chipped ice and still warm me to my core.Collection: Eye
Please touch me. I need you to touch me.Collection: Needs
So when do we get to the junk-kicking?Collection: Junk
His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.Collection: Eye
His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline.Collection: Hands
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.Collection: Hurt
As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.Collection: Reason
I’d always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love - or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could get how far, and I could never figure out if there was more luck or skill involved, or some unknowable combination of the two. People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.Collection: Games
People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.Collection: People
A word of advice, though. This won't be the last time you have to deal with something in life that throws you off your game. In future courses, as well as in the real world--such as it is--professors and employers won't always be accommodating. We all have to--what's my daughter's terminology--suck it up and deal?Collection: Daughter
We remain silent because we've taken on a responsibility and/or shame that was never ours to carry. Forgive yourself for things that were not your fault. Bad decisions, mistaken trust, physical weakness, or too much fear to act do not make an assault on you or someone you care about your fault. Ever.Collection: Taken
Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.Collection: Moments
Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs and Quinton’s biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You’re welcome.Collection: Girl
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.Collection: Mom
Oh No! My wings are effed up!Collection: Wings
I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more amused. "That may be the most enchanting thing I've ever been told after spending the night with a girl.Collection: Girl
It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.Collection: Loss
I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.Collection: Fear
That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.Collection: Dog
How could I not love you? No one has ever affected me like you do. When you told me goodbye last month, I tried to let you go. I told myself it was the best thing for you because you wanted it. But you’re wrong, Dori. I’m good for you even if you don’t know it yet. I know because I’ve never been good for anyone before.Collection: Goodbye
I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay.Collection: Deserve Better
I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.Collection: Believe
Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing - which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.Collection: Friday
there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be oneCollection: Boys
He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.Collection: Crazy
She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.Collection: Wind