“Love is like the sun on a hot summer's day, this burning ball of light that is too bright to look at. It's standing on top of the cliffs in fifty-mile-an-hour winds, the force and power of the wind is so strong it can knock you off your feet, it makes you feel like you can't breathe, but as you stand there with your arms outstretched, felling its strength as it roars past you , it makes you feel so alive. You, my friend, have that look that you're about to be knocked off your feet.”
― Sunshine and Secrets at Blackberry Beach
― Sunshine and Secrets at Blackberry Beach
“Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be when it’s right. But if you let me, I’ll be there to catch you when you fall.”
― Dancing Beneath the Blue Junipers
― Dancing Beneath the Blue Junipers
“Her touch healed his tender wounds lingering within, her kisses sang of forgiveness for his many mistakes. She was a cool spring for his parched heart, and he drank her in.”
― Until the Rising
― Until the Rising
“I wondered if I would ever grow tired of looking at him, if his features would become like the lyrics of a song I knew by heart. The kind I sang absently to myself while driving but without really focusing on the meaning.”
― After the Music
― After the Music
“I closed my eyes, remembering what he’d looked like, so close I could smell the shaving soap he’d used that morning. The way Benedict had looked at me—I thought I might melt right there on that log. I’d been so bold to reach for his hand. And I didn’t even feel guilty or ashamed. We’d been in a world of our own with rules we made. Rules that included holding hands and kissing. I wanted to live in that world always.”
― A Match for a Bookish Bride
― A Match for a Bookish Bride
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