01c. 2002 ADLetting go meant you accepted what couldn't be changed. You didn't try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune...nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make them capitulate to your will...nor did you beg for salvation because you assumed you knew better. Letting go meant you stared at what was before you with clear eyes, recognizing that unfettered choice was the exception and destiny the rule.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
02c. 2002 ADSomeone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.Life. In all its mundane majesty.And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were trapped in an attic's darkness.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
03c. 2002 ADhe(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paperJ.R. Ward / quote ↗
04c. 2002 ADI was dead unit you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
05c. 2002 ADSometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
07c. 2002 ADPerfect!" Wrath bellowed. "And this is a doctor saying it -- I mean, she went to medical school."..."And Dr. Sam told me she's delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career -- ""See!" Wrath yelled. "She knows these things. My son is perfect!J.R. Ward / quote ↗
08c. 2002 ADThe essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
10c. 2002 ADBeth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
11c. 2002 ADSometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
13c. 2002 ADCaregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
14c. 2002 ADAh, hell.His peripheral vision was working far too well tonight.His slut of a cousin, his cocksucking, suit-wearing, Montblanc-up-the-ass cousin Saxton the Magnificent, was standing next to the queen, looking like a combination of Cary Grant and some model in a goddamn cologne ad.Not that Qhuinn was bitter.Because the guy was sharing Blay's bed.Nah.Nope. Not at all.The Cocksucker-With a wince, he thought maybe he should switch that insult to something a little farther away from what the two of them ...God, he couldn't even go there. Not if he wanted to breathe.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
15c. 2002 ADIt felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
16c. 2002 ADAs Qhuinn looked at his best friend's handsome face, he felt as if he'd never not known that red hair, those blue eyes, those lips, that jaw. And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been. All that came to him was . . . I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
17c. 2002 ADQhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?J.R. Ward / quote ↗
18c. 2002 ADBut then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
19c. 2002 ADYou've always been there for me. Always. Even when I…" V"Even when you what?" B"You know." V"What?" B"Fuck. Even when I was in love with you. Or some shit." VButch clasped his hands to his chest. "Was? Was? I can't believe you've lost interest." He threw one arm over his eyes, all Sarah Bernhardt. "My dreams of our future are shattered—" B"Shut it, cop." VButch looked out from under his arm. "Are you kidding me? The reality show I had planned was fantastic. Was going to pitch it to VH1. Two Bites Are Better Than One. We were going to make millions ." B"Oh, for the love.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
20c. 2002 ADOkay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?J.R. Ward / quote ↗
21c. 2002 ADMichael Rafferty was a goodman. A solid man. He was never going to be Hugh Jackman handsome or Bill Gates rich or King of England powerful. But he was hers and he was Sean's and that was more than enoughJ.R. Ward / quote ↗
22c. 2002 ADWithout time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity....Time is what gives life significance.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
23c. 2002 ADI want to see the front of you.”“That’s what all the girls say.”“Do you expect me to roll you over? ’Cuz I will.”“Your mate’s not going to like this.”“As if that’s going to bother you?”“True. It actually makes it worth the effort.”With a groan, he shoved his palms into the shimmering silver pool of blood beneath him, and flopped over like the side of beef he was.“Wow,” she breathed.“I know, right? Hung like a horse.”“If you’re really nice—and you live through this—I’ll promise not to tell V.”“About my size.”She laughed a little. “No, that you assumed I’d look at you in any fashion other than professionally.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
24c. 2002 ADMan, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.J.R. Ward / quote ↗
