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“Damn them all, my love. Your future is your own. Destiny is for the weak. The strong make their own futures, and you were born with a sword for a spine.”
― Beneath the Skin
― Beneath the Skin
“You hold a lioness in your arms, little witch. Someone’s sky; another’s earth; and a third’s star. Blood, skin, and breath in one.”
― Beneath the Skin
― Beneath the Skin
“It’s a terrible thing to limp along the sides of a life you once ran through.”
― In the Blood
― In the Blood
“...politics is a game every king must play and secrets are the best defense we have.”
― Beneath the Skin
― Beneath the Skin
“How does a person exist after their world has been torn to pieces? It must be possible. People do it all the time. After all the floods and tornadoes and wars that have hit the world with inexorable violence, people somehow scrape up their lives and begin again.”
― Wild Horses Don't Stop at Whoa: Poems and Stories
― Wild Horses Don't Stop at Whoa: Poems and Stories
“Women always have a little more strength than they believe, even when lying on the ground at the seeming end of their endurance. Find that extra strength and push.”
― Beneath the Skin
― Beneath the Skin
“I’ve waited for him to invite my confidence, to fill the void my mother’s death left in my life. I’ve hungered for his affection. But he made me wait too long.”
― Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018
― Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018
“He reclines in the hospital bed like a martyred king taking leave of his beloved kingdom, but all I see is a petulant, destructive child hiding in a dead man’s body.”
― Wild Horses Don't Stop at Whoa: Poems and Stories
― Wild Horses Don't Stop at Whoa: Poems and Stories
“...no one knows better than I what a good woman your mother was. But she had a weakness for misery and it led to her death. I don’t want the same thing to happen to you.”
― Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018
― Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018
“Her armor appears fragile –
a delicate shell of silk and perfume.
Life's troubles seem to find each chink.
But try to touch that smooth shield
and you will see it crumble in your hands.
As the dust dissipates, you find she is gone.”
― Wild Horses Don't Stop at Whoa: Poems and Stories
a delicate shell of silk and perfume.
Life's troubles seem to find each chink.
But try to touch that smooth shield
and you will see it crumble in your hands.
As the dust dissipates, you find she is gone.”
― Wild Horses Don't Stop at Whoa: Poems and Stories
“I’d rather give too much than not enough.”
― In the Blood
― In the Blood
“The devil’s help always comes with the devil’s price.”
― In the Blood
― In the Blood
