You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.
I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.
You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.
Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.
That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.
one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.
I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.
Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.
I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.
I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.
I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.
Different isn't evil, it's just different.
No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.
It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.
But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.
That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.
Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
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