Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.

And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within. Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

Why do you even put up with me?' 'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.

I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy