“A lazy smile reached his lips. The mere sight of me shirtless takes your mind there? Good to know. Id rather a solid fuck than getting my kumbayas out.”

“They surrounded him here, but beyond, flames licked the cabins, the incendiary glow striking a similar spark inside him from the injustice theyd faced tonight.”

“Three things lit her match without failabusive assholes, idiots who didnt use their turn signals, and unannounced shifters moving in on her territory.”

“Took long enough, she called out, not wanting to admit how the sight of him made her throat hitch, how the man was so gorgeous she lost her mind. I thought you drowned in the mirror from staring in...”

“Feeling a little calmer? she asked, leaning against the desk again.Dax snorted. Mellow as anything. Im ready to curl up and take a nap now. Dont mind if I purr.”

“Go figure, that happened to be his same style of flirtation as wellannoy her half to death until, before she could stop herself, she confessed her deep darks and bonded with him to a degree she nev...”

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and a...”

“. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse th...”

“Its like they were worried that Id be alone all day brooding and painting my cabin black or somethingsheesh.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with trave...”

“I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Gh...”

“To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.”