Kristen Gray

“Do you play video games, Liv?’ he asked congenially.
‘Uh, yes.’
‘Well, stop cleaning up the dishes and come play with us,’ he teased.
I chuckled. ‘Are you asking me on a playdate?’ As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I regretted them. I wasn’t being flirty. I didn’t know how to be flirty! That was just my sense of humor, and now this guy was going to think I was coming on –
Nate laughed, cutting me off. ‘Only because you got the Star Trek reference. Otherwise, girls aren’t allowed to play with us. They’re icky.’
Deadpan, I crossed my arms over my chest. ‘Well, boys are icky too.’
He grinned huge. ‘Ain’t that the truth.”
― Samantha Young, Before Jamaica Lane

“I learned that regret gets you nothing but a bigger pile of shit to shovel around.  And so, I made a decision.  I decided not to muck around in the regret shit pile for even one more day.”
― Raine Miller, Cherry Girl

“I knew more happiness and love than I’d ever experienced in my life, and now understood how precious it was to have that love.”
― Raine Miller, Rare and Precious Things

“I want to be someone's big love, Dad. I think I deserve to have the man I love love me back just as much.”
― Samantha Young, Before Jamaica Lane