“I can smack a ball-bearing between your abusive fiancé’s eyes before his wingtips hit the sidewalk.”
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“This is just between you and me, two adults. Trust me.”
― Virtual Mirrors: First Journal
― Virtual Mirrors: First Journal
“With tears of joy, I recalled Fat Mary’s role in my childhood. She had been my consoler and counselor since the day I understood I was alone in the world and had no one who loved me or wanted me. I had decided back then that I would love me, fat me, just as I was. Her role was also to safeguard the meaningful and happy moments of my childhood and bring them to me when I needed to remember life’s goodness.”
― America's Daughter
― America's Daughter
“And he never asked you about it?”
“No, he never asked. If he had, I’m still not sure I would have told him.”
“Told him what?”
“That is was his baby.”
― Body In The Woods
“No, he never asked. If he had, I’m still not sure I would have told him.”
“Told him what?”
“That is was his baby.”
― Body In The Woods
“He witnessed the love people throughout the industry had for their animals and for the sport itself. Someone once snapped a picture depicting his rictus of wonderment as he listened to a stable mate trace the lineage of a horse in a neighboring stall. Sires and dams, by name, for generations back. Wil could tell the lad wasn’t fabricating those names. We remember what we love.”
― Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel
― Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel
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