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“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“You don’t have to be around long to understand the world is a frightening place, that life includes situations you have no control over, that anything can happen. Everybody needs friends and a family.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Mama gasped. “She’s pregnant?”
The nurse stood. “Not pregnant. In labor. About to deliver her child�� when did your water break, honey?”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“Clutching me in her arms, Mama stared at Emily. “You have a responsibility to this child.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“To think how thrilled she was when she took the job to have to sign the Official Secrets Act. It seemed so deliciously cloak and dagger, and she thought she'd become privy to important national secrets, or at least something interesting.  But it's all piffle, baffling as hell and twice as boring.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?”
― Isabel Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams

“You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to.”
― Richelle Mead, Gameboard of the Gods

“That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

“Όλες οι ευτυχισμένες οικογένειες μοιάζουν μεταξύ τους. Κάθε δυστυχισμένη οικογένεια, όμως, είναι δυστυχισμένη με το δικό της τρόπο”
― Leon Tolstoy

“If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn’t, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost.If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn't, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost. Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me? Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me?”
― Miranda Parker, A Good Excuse to Be Bad

“An old western standoff had nothing on the looks that my mom and grandma were exchanging. A tumbleweed could have rolled through the kitchen and neither would have noticed.”
― Lani Woodland, Indelible

“It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.”
― David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“She and I had exchanged a few text messages, although they had been mostly to remind me just how pissed she’d be if I started anything with her asshole of a brother. The same asshole who had last night said, ‘If you ever hurt her, psycho Sid, I’ll kill you.�� Naturally, I’d replied by dangling him over the balcony until he begged me to pull him back up.

It had been kind of fun.�� (Salem)”
― Suzanne Wright, Consumed

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“I knew, deep down, that I was different from my family. I knew just by looking in the mirror.”
― Alex Dalton, A View From The Mountain

“We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing." ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister”
― Cheri Paris Edwards

“In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice sometimes had to look at him obliquely or with her eyes half closed or through a pin hole on a piece of cardboard. Straight on would burn her retinas.”
― Carol Anshow

“So how long do I have to pack?”
― Don Darkes, 6692 Pisces the Sailfish

“We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of “just kidding.”
― David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“Danny’s brows furrowed with another scowl. “You’re so goddamn obstinate, Kate, so fuckin�� selfish. You don’t give a shit ‘bout how I feel or ‘bout how much it torments me.��
“Yes, I do,�� she objected, her throat thick despite her anger. “That’s why our ways must part for a while. Because we’re both suffering. We need to be apart from each other, Danny, don’t you see?��
“You need to be apart, damn ya,�� he growled, clenching his fists. “You needa get rid of me ‘cause ya don’t wanna be reminded of how ya were toyin�� with me. So your conscience won’t haunt ya, tellin�� ya that it was wrong to take advantage of my feelings as long as ya needed me.��
Katherine let out an outraged gasp.
“I never took advantage of you or toyed with you—ever! I’ve seen you as my brother. I didn’t know your feelings for me went deeper.��
Danny huffed a hard, sardonic laugh, and for a moment she felt strongly reminded of Joe.
“Don’t play innocent with me, Kate! You knew exactly what ya were doin��. All that banterin��, your enchanting smiles��. You’re a grown woman, not an inexperienced girl. You already had yasself a husband, ya know the deal.”
― Melanie Nova, The Avant-gardiste: Into the West

“I deserve to be appreciated. I deserve to know what it is to feel this again.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“But fine was not what she wanted. Was that too much to ask? That she should feel something?”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Because you can handle it. You’ve always been the strong one. I’m sorry I’ve always been so tough on you.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Haven’t you ever heard that it’s almost always easier to reveal your innermost secrets to a stranger?”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Don’t settle. Don’t ever settle.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“And it was something more. It felt like coming home.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Perhaps that’s all he is, a distraction from thinking about, or dealing with, the things in her life that are so painful, that fill her with a sadness so great, it is easier to focus on what feels suspiciously like a schoolgirl crush.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters