“Ive never been with a boy who hasnt seen me naked. Its always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep. Dont chalk it up to daddy issues.Maybe Im sick of keeping private parts ...”

“He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, its addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.”

“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. Ive never understood how being loved fully could change your entire perspective of the world. I only ever unders...”

“Wrap him up in floral wallpaper, wishing the envelopes I seal were his lips, leaving hickeys like stamps to show where he's been.”

“Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.”

“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose Ange...”

“I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.”

“The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human voyage to another planet. It was a choice of fitting my...”

“Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the pe...”

“Exploration of her body will open the doors to pleasuring her in ways she has yet to experience.”

“MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness,a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green.”

“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.”

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”