Just once" Blay said softly. "Do it just once. So I'll know what it's like.

Dedicated to: You. There will never be another like you. For me...you are the one. Yeah, I don't have enough words for this.

There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.

How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs.

When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.

John? As it was dark he whistled a what. You are such a male of worth, you know that. You really are.

When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.