Kristen Ashley

Apparently Super Max was pretty content with taking care of half the town, such was his wonderfulness.

Heya, Arlene. What__ shakin_?_ Cotton greeted.__on__ shift some of this weight, everything,_ Arlene replied.

It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.

When we faced Mom, we saw she was addressing Max. "We get to know each other I'll get to hug you." "Mom!" I snapped and Mom turned to me. "I get to do it when he doesn't have a shirt on too. I'm calling it now," Mom declared.

You don__ have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked_ very much_ and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.

I realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics.__ don__ think she__ tied up in knots anymore, Gladie,_ Norm observed.__he is, dear, just not ones she wants to untie,_ Gladys remarked.

Lonely__ a different kind of pain, it doesn__ hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it __ause I reckoned it was one or the other.

How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn't ever seem to penetrate.

Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.

I never dreamed any fuckin' dream," he whispered, and the smile faded from her face as tears filled her eyes.She understood him."Shy-""Didn't dream it, saw it, waited my time, and then you gave it to me.

That Damon Matthews,_ Linda spat. __ou know, take one letter out of his name and it spells _ damn_ as in __amn, that kid__ a worthless sonovabitch_.

Darlin_, the last time I walked into a mall was two presidents ago._ I stared at him in shock. Then I asked, __s that even possible?_ __ got a dick and I was single so, yeah, it__ possible.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it__ one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

Don__ go woman on me and tell me you don__ need a man to complete you. It__ bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that__ not a waste. That__ a crying shame.

No one knows what goes down between a woman and her man except that woman. Only thing they know is what went down with their own men.

The best way to guard your heart was to trust a good man to take care of it for you.

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

However, at fourteen years old, she didn__ understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life