The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder