heartbreaking

and sadness clung to mebecause she did not knowhow to be alone.

Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. __eel that?_ His throat worked as he swallowed. __t would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me._--Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology

There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see the woman you love, the one woman you would do anything to protect, is the woman who is afraid of you. It broke his heart.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

She wears it so beautifully doesn__ she, her pain_ Always smiling, always positive_. always happy to help_ It__ like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it_ with a touch of grace_ and the quietness of that sad smile_. All so you__ never know how heavy it really was.

There comes a point where you no longer care if there__ a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You__e just sick of the tunnel.

You made me feel worthwhile_. like for once it mattered if I was here or not because I actually meant something to someone_. because I meant something to you. I miss that feeling.

It didn__ hurt me. Not __urt_. Hurt is a four letter word. It__ short, almost cute sounding. Aawwww, did that hurt? No. It didn__ hurt. Destroyed, Obliterated, Desecrated, Annihilated, Demolished, Shattered, or Demoralised maybe_ But no. It didn__ hurt me. It didn__ __urt_ me at all.

I__ fought alongside them in that battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. The angels weren__ supposed to feel emotion, but they were weeping. All of them. Their tears stained their flawless faces like rain running in rivulets across stone.

Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

When one is being driven to the edge, we either fight back or jump

Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did.

The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel's Ammu was fed to it. Her hair, her skin, her smile. Her voice. They way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, though and I. Her goodnight kiss. The way she held their faces steady with one hand (squashed-cheeked, fish-mouthed) while she parted and combed their hair with the other. The way she held knickers out for Rahel to climb into. Left leg, right leg. All this was fed to the beast, and it was satisfied.She was their Ammu and their Baba and she had loved them Double.

Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...

Tonight they granted at least one wish,_ I whispered, and I lowered my head so our lips drifted over one another. __ love you Adam, no matter how lost you are_or I am_I will only ever love you.

And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.

When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But for now I__ as solid as a column. And alone I stand.

One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!