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1 " Love is as strong as death. "
― Kennedy Ryan , Hook Shot (Hoops #3)
2 " Give yourself permission to let it hurt, but allow yourself permission to let it heal.” Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman "
3 " Sometimes we hold so tightly to the hurt from the past that we miss the happiness ahead, "
4 " My beloved is mine and I am his. --Song of Solomon 2:16 "
5 " I have found the one whom my soul loves. --Song of Solomon 3:4 "
6 " He's a castle with secret tunnels and abandoned dungeons and heavy locked doors.And I'm his skeleton key. "
7 " There is no place, no spot on the continuum of time that could have hidden this man from me. "
8 " There is no one else but you, my friend, my equal.” --Song of Solomon 5:2 "
9 " Wild women are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves . . . she'll allow you into her chaos, but she'll also show you her magic.”—Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman "
10 " What if she gave me to you?” I bend to whisper over her lips. “What if I’m your gris gris now? "
11 " Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely. "
12 " Children and bored adults need to be entertained. Grown men living with purpose require time and quiet and energy. "
13 " It’s us admitting to the universe we don’t have all the answers. Too often religion says yes, I do have all the answers, and if you don’t like them, you can’t sit at my table. So we have all these tables. Too many tables, and not enough love. "
14 " No one has to tell a queen to wear her crown. "
15 " I lift my chin, tighten my thighs at his hips, and roll again. Clench tighter, introducing his cock to its new mistress. I will possess this warrior under me. The man they call Gladiator taken captive by a girl half his size and a decade younger. I'm a girl he could crush, but everything in the way he looks at me says cherish. Says treasure. Says protect.Says I'm his, too. "
16 " Our eyes hold and our gris-gris rings lock together like our lives, our destinies, have remained entwined. It could be my imagination, but as she bears down and squeezes my hand for one final agonizing push, I feel that power surge the doctor mentioned. The power in our veins passed between two little girls in the Lower Ninth. We held it in a field of rotting cane, even when we were torn apart. It flows between us now through years and heartache and unconditional love. The power of an unbroken line. We are the magic. "
17 " But you have one more time to put your finger in my face and step to me. "
18 " Nothing against fake lashes. I just don’t like it when the woman blinking them is fake, too. "
19 " I’m not one to believe in fate, but my first week in a city this big, I have a six-degrees-of-separation with the one woman I‘d summer fling and summer fuck. When fate knocks, you answer. "
20 " I bite my bottom lip until it hurts, and I love it. It’s a hurt I can control. I can turn it on. I can turn it off. If I bite hard enough, I’ll see the marks of my teeth. I prefer that to the pain that spreads over my body when I least expect it. That’s a pain I can’t stop—can’t control. And it’s invisible. Untraceable, but lately, it’s hurting me just the same.I can’t see it. I can’t find it. I can’t fix it. "
