01UndatedGrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do.GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before.IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
02UndatedHe's going to kill me. They'll find me lying on the floor, my heart burt wide open, too full of him to stay in my chest.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
03UndatedIf you try to take our heart without earning our soul, our heart will breakKristen Callihan / quote ↗
04UndatedI love you." He stabbed a thumb at his chest as he glared at her.Of course he did. Lucien had never hidden the fact. But the love of a friend, while comforting, was not enough anymore.It did not soothe the restless discomfort that pushed against her chest or quell the loneliness that seemed to grow within her each passing day.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
05UndatedThe whole of my life I have relied on my beauty first, brains second. It was expected, even requested. But You saw right through me from the start. You are the only man I've ever known who has looked beyond my face and wanted to know me for me. And I find myself wanting you to know the whole me.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
06UndatedYou know, it's never wise to tempt the devil"His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingersKristen Callihan / quote ↗
07UndatedThere were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
08UndatedHe couldn't remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him. Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were just a man. He had lived on those moments ever since, pulled them to the fore when loneliness threatened to suck him down and drown himKristen Callihan / quote ↗
09UndatedThings must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her joints ached when she moved. Sorry and loneliness were an insidious evil, for they lived in the mind. One could not take a tonic and see them dissipate.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
10UndatedHis steps slowed to a stop. “Why?” His voice was a ghost in the quiet. “Why give me your trust when you know it is such an easy thing to break?”“Perhaps the easy giving of it will make it harder to breakKristen Callihan / quote ↗
11UndatedBecause we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be lovedKristen Callihan / quote ↗
12UndatedShe glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
13Undatedbut at the end of the day, who I come home to, who I share my accomplishments with is what makes the struggle worth itKristen Callihan / quote ↗
14UndatedLord above, was there a better sight than a woman flush with passion, her skin dewy and pink, her breasts bouncing from the force of his thrusts?Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
15UndatedAnd who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?""La luna," she said with a smile."Then I shall be la notte to your moon" Archer lifted the hard black mask he held and slipped it over his thinner silk oneKristen Callihan / quote ↗
16UndatedMr. Alexander Graham Bell claims to have invented [photophone transmitter], though really it was created through a collaborative effort with Mr. Charles Sumner Tainter. In all honesty,” she said, “a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
17UndatedA kiss, he said, is a conversation. Easing closer, he continued to speak as he caressed her cheeks with featherlight stokes of his thumbs. "A first kiss", his lips neared hers, is an introduction and then his mouth brushed against hers. The contact sparked, sharp and bright like lightning, yet his lips were soft, unexpectedly so. Her breath caught the same instant his did. Against her mouth he whispered "That was Hello" His breath mingled with hers as he waited, his lips so close she could feel their warmth. For a moment she simply breathed him in growing heady on the scent of him and the tight anticipation gathering in her belly. Then she understood. Nerves fluttering, she brushed her lips across his as he had done. Again his breath hitched, as if he too felt that same spark, that hot need. Her eyes drifted closed and his voice poured over her like warm cream. "This is, 'I'm Jack'.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
18UndatedThere are times when a girl needs sexy. That's the thing no one ever tells you. Sexy can be both a weapon and a wall of defense.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
19UndatedWhat is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
20UndatedChrist," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,"You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
21UndatedPerhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
22UndatedWalking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
23UndatedHe breathes in deep, then lets it go with a shaky gust. “I hate this. I hate it so much.” His grip makes my ribs protest, and his voice goes rough. “I feel like some essential organ is being ripped from me.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
24UndatedIf life has taught me anything it’s to appreciate what you’ve got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.Kristen Callihan / quote ↗
