Kip

“I’d like nothing more than to be your girl.” The words trembled out of my mouth.
He took me into his arms and his lips touched mine. Tender and sweet, as though it was our first time.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

“He cringed each morning as the newspapers were brought to him. The media was eating the story up. His anger grew as he read the suppositions and the innuendos; the fact that his life was being laid bare for the entire world to see.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“From The Other Side, Uncle Roscoe was still exercising his Second Amendment rights. Protecting me from my stalker? Or was his gun going to get me killed?”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

“What have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land