“My knitting is simple", he said again. can make anything you want with it, but it will always be simple.”

“Youre here! She repeated, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legsaround his hips. Hed dropped his bags as shed ran, and now he cupped her bottom in his large hands...His heart gave a giant t...”

“Green heard her voice, murmuring,and Adrians, murmuring back. Something inside of him made an actualglass-cracking noiseand before he could convince himself that that it washis imagination, Blissa ...”

“He leaned forward then and put his face in the crook of my neck, so he could smell the warmth rising from it. His nose touched my skin, just enough to make me shiver.When he spoke again, it was rig...”

“Dont worry, dueane, He murmured lowly....Whos Dewey Anne. I asked him, voice gruff. He was so familiar, this Bracken, but so strange, naked next to me. I could touchhim, I realized with wonder. I c...”

“It looks like two alpacas fucking, mostly," he said apologetically. "Of course, sometimes, the boy can't get his boy parts past the girl's furry ass, and he needs a little help, so then it looks li...”

“Sex was lovely. Sex was sublime. Sex was flesh and cock and suck and fuck and come. This night sex was starlight. Sex was oxygen. Sex was us, and we were beautiful, beautiful and perfect in each ot...”

“Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.”

“...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...”

“Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.”

“My self-esteem is Teflon coated, baby.”

“And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadnt learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.”

“Getting caught is what I do best. It is either a natural talent (which means we can blame my family genes) or a well-hewn craft (in which case we can still blame my parents).”