I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.
Karen Marie MoningI have your word?โ โYou trust my word?โ โYouโre an idealistic fool. Of course.
Karen Marie MoningI miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills. If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back.
Karen Marie MoningWas he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?โ Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. โIt was like being owned.โ Some women like that.โ Not me.โ Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.โ I doubt it. I couldnโt breathe with him kissing me.โ One day you may kiss a man you canโt breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.โ Right, and one day my prince might come.โ I doubt heโll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.
Karen Marie MoningThose who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. Itโs as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the worldโs all bright and shiny! Too bad youโre not.
Karen Marie Moning