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“You asked what my intentions are, Mrs. Brenner, and I would like to answer your question.” Dibs opened his mouth as if preparing to argue and she glared at him from across the table. Did he really think not to let her state her case in front of his family? He snapped his mouth shut and briskly rubbed a palm across his forehead before tossing that same hand in the air. “My intentions are these.” She gathered her thoughts, folding her hands in her lap. “When David is sad, I intend to make him happy. When he is ill, I intend to make him well. When he is angry or upset, I intend to listen and find the words to make him feel better. When he is depressed, I intend to bring him joy, and when he is hurt, I intend to find the source of his pain and take it away from him.” She bridged the distance to Dibs’s devoted gaze, and radiant love crested the last barricade surrounding her heart. “You see, Mr. and Mrs. Brenner, I’m in love with your son. But I don’t want anything from him. You don’t need to worry because my only intention is to give to him. That’s the way it’s supposed to be when you love someone, isn’t it? To think only of their needs, instead of your own?” She broke off from Dibs and faced his mother. “Those are my intentions, Mrs. Brenner. I hope you find them satisfactory.”
― AJ Nuest

“Just because someone doesn't give you what you deserve, that doesn't mean you should automatically settle for less.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“It’s you, Tessa.” He crawled up her body and levered her onto her side, his fingers a warm link he tunneled in under her hair. “Don’t you see? For the first time, I know what’s real. My life isn’t about doing what everyone else thinks is right in order to be happy. Not anymore. Because I found my own happiness.” The ball of his thumb swept her lips. “I found it with you.” How could she not believe him, when his words were so filled with love? “Tell me what you’re thinking,” he said.

“I’d forgotten what it’s like, you know? It’s been so long…I’d just forgotten how incredible it all feels.” When tears rushed her eyes, she blinked them away. So she could stay right in the moment, within the tenderness of his gaze. She placed a hand on his chest, over his heart. “I want you to know how much I appreciate everything you did for me, Dibs. You’ve become everything that’s good and right in my life. And I’m sorry if I made things difficult for you.” His eyes glistened, two sparkling bits of heaven over a thin crescent of tears.

“Rex, you’re breaking my heart over here.”

“I’m just so grateful, and its important to me you understand. You gave me a second chance at happiness. You know that, right?”
― AJ Nuest

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I'm going to come at you like a freight train.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“Parry and thrust.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.”
― Kelly Moran, All of Me

“She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn't for a photo on the mantle.”
― Kelly Moran, All of Me

“A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.”
― Kelly Moran, All of Me

“Sammy: "How do you comb your hair so the horns don't show?"
Cain: "Don't mind her. A house just fell on her sister.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“I'm apologizing. For whatever I did. For whatever the guy who hurt you did. For the JFK assassination or the botched moon landing. Take your pick." ~Cain, Ghost of You”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“This isn't just chemistry. It's the whole periodic table." ~Cain”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“She had yet to actually call him by his real name. The psychologist in him had all kinds of theories as to why. The man in him wanted to hear her say it. Just once.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“He looked longingly out the window at the towering skyline of New York City and thought about jumping. It would hurt less than following orders.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
― Kelly Moran

“I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I’ll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I’m happy wasting every second of it on her.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.”
― Kelly Moran, Summer's Road

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.”
― Kelly Moran, The Drake House

“We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.”
― Kelly Moran, The Tiny Caterpillar and the Great Big Tree

“Life Lessons According to Camryn:
One must handle stress like a dog; if you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.”
― Kelly Moran, When the Leaves Stop Falling

“The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.”
― Kelly Moran, Idle Thursday

“Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.”
― Kelly Moran, An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems And Short Stories

“Life Lessons According to Camryn:
One must handle stress like a dog; if you can't eat is or play with it, pee on it and walk away”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“I have something I need to get off my chest.”
“What’s that?”
“This.” He closed his mouth over hers.”
― Kelly Moran, Give Up the Ghost

“At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.”
― Kelly Moran, Give Up the Ghost

“Most of the time, life doesn't pass me by, it tries to run me over.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise