Samantha

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

“I am happy,” I tell her, and it is true. Other than the nagging worry about the Little Green Men returning, I’m incredibly happy. My translator’s gone, and I have…Aehako. Big, flirty Aehako who treats me like I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Really, it’s the other way around. He’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I think even if I were offered a ride home back to earth tomorrow, I’d decline, just so I could stay with my big alien mate.
Maybe that makes me crazy. But what did I have back on earth? No one that cared about me, an entry-level job in finance, and a mountain of student debt. Here I have an entire tribe of people, and Aehako.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover

“Piece of advice number one: there is no such thing as leagues when it comes to dating.
There is only compatibility.
Would you say you are compatible with this guy?
Yes, I mean we’ve talked and we always seem to get along.
He gave a curt head-shake, That’s not compatibility.
You get along with the mailman, compatibility is connection emotional, intellectual, physical and sexual.
Got any of that with the object of your affection?”
― Kate Meader, Foreplayer

“The pain of loss is like nothing I’ve ever felt before. I’ve always been a lucky one, born into a large, loving family. We were spared when the khui sickness hit the caves hard many years ago. I’ve never lost someone I loved so intensely as I loved Kira.”
― Ruby Dixon , Barbarian Lover