“No. One. Comes. Before You.”

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.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it.” His blue eyes gazed back at me. “But I can’t let him have you.

It was like she’d become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,”he said with an amused tone. -Dank

Blaire, tell me what you want me to do. I’ll do whatever it is you need.

I don’t just love her, she owns me. Completely. I’d do anything for her

You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else

He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?” I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.

When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.

I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.

I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I’d given my heart away to someone who didn’t want it. Even knowing that, I didn’t regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.

You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

I’ve played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I’m already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.

One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.

I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.