“She’d barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. – Beau”

Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.

I didn’t need taming. I needed saving.

You’re my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.

You’re it for me, baby. Just you. You’re not going to be your mother. You’re special and unique and we’re going to get you help. But I will be right by your side the entire time. I’ll never leave you. I swear it.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It’s eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you’re only making me hate him

Beau’s arms slipped around my waist. I knew I should step away but I couldn’t make myself. This was home. Being in his arms like this was where I found peace.

Okay, so you want your other nipple pierced,” she said pulling up a chair and getting her supplies ready. “She wants my other nipple pierced,” he replied winking at.

I might never breathe again once he walked away from me.

The whole town’s talking about the way Jax Stone sat in your hospital room and snag to you until you came out of your coma. Then he apparently wouldn’t leave you alone for a minute. The boy sounds hooked.

It’s called Valentine’s Day, you moron. If you’re going to date a human, Dankmar, you need to remember their holidays.

You’re mine, Pagan Moore. You will always be mine.

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we’re older. Things change.

I’ll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don’t shut me out again. Please.

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.

Well, let’s see, I found out Pagan has low blood sugar and becomes a complete b–witch if she doesn’t eat a candy bar during a stressful moment.

When i’m wasted, i can almost forget who i am,” he said, his smile fading slightly. “i know i’m still there, but only barely. It’s a good place to be.” he tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

The only time I’d played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.