33 quotes found
“Time owed an alliance to the undying.”
“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
“College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.”
“Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.”
“None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.”
“The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.”
“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”
“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kiss...”
“Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling a...”
“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live fore...”
“Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.”
“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.”
“Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that some combined the two and, while she could see how this would improve the ma...”
“It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied.”
“There is little worse than when the person to whom you want to apologize is having great sex in your room.”
“Roselyn adored the scent of sex, the wafting aroma of angel fontanels before they earn their halos.”
“Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of far off seasons.”
“Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a...”
“She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.”
“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.”
“He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.”
“Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. Mrs. Kaspar sounded too like a phone solicitor,...”
“I missed you, she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbe...”
