Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point.
Nora RobertsItโs good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,โ she qualified, โbut know. To be with someone, who even when you donโt think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. Iโm not going to look around the corner for whatโs next.
Nora RobertsThe vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring of it. Of all he'd craved in his life, all he'd dreamed of having, all he'd fought to gain by fair means or foul, he'd never imagined having such such as she as his own. Never imagined himself the man he'd come to be because she was.
Nora RobertsParker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpartโhad a mate. A rightness. Sheโd always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.
Nora RobertsYou know what, the jacketโs like the car.โ "โIs this a riddle?โ " , "โNo,โ Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","โItโs an", "ordinary thingโwell, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, itโs ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. Thatโs even better than a just-because present.โ", "โYouโre right. He does. And it is.โ Inside, Eve paused another moment. โHeโs worried about me.โ", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]
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