Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
Rick YanceyI start to unbutton his shirt. "Got to get these clothes off," I mutter. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that." Smile. Lopsided. Sexy.
Rick YanceyHe spreads his fingers over my heart, like heโs holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory heโs won fair and square.
Rick YanceyTo show mercy is not naรฏve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.
Rick Yancey