Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.

You're pissed I laid it out and you're gonna go nurse your snit

Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.

That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.