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1 " After a bout of sex, Sam: And P.S., if I'm going to have to do this Bible-holding business twice a year, I ought to get paid a special stipend.Nick: I just made a deposit. "
― Marie Force , Fatal Affair (Fatal Series #1)
2 " water. "
3 " What’s happened to you? You’re swearing like I do.” He lowered his head so he was speaking directly into her ear. “You happened to me. You make me crazy and frantic and out of my mind with fear and desire all in the same day. "
4 " We arrive with nothing, we leave with nothing, and in death what we’ve accomplished—or not accomplished—doesn’t much matter. "
5 " Why haven’t you ever gotten married?” “I don’t know. Just never happened.” “Surely there had to have been someone you might’ve married.” “There was this one girl...” “What happened?” “She never returned my calls. "
6 " Any time he’d asked that question of a D.C. native, they looked at him like he had two heads and said that’s the way they’d always done it. Still, didn’t they get that it was confusing to out-of-towners? "
7 " of her clothes and slid naked between the cool sheets. Less than a minute later, she "
8 " When are you going to turn into a jerk? "
9 " He had robbed her of a lot more than four years of her life. He had taken her self-esteem, caused her to question her judgment, stolen her self-respect and left her confidence in tatters. A smart woman would be leery of making another mistake after the whopper she’d made with Peter. A smart woman would go slow with Nick, would take her time, would make sure she was doing the right thing. As the clank of metal against metal reminded her she had a very angry man to deal with, she decided she clearly wasn’t as smart as she’d always thought. "
10 " Nick led him over to where Sam pretended she wasn’t crying. “Come on, Mom.” Scotty extended a hand to her. “Let’s go home. "
11 " death was the great equalizer. We arrive with nothing, we leave with nothing, and in death what we’ve accomplished—or not accomplished—doesn’t much matter. Senator or bricklayer, millionaire or welfare mother, they all looked more or less the same laid out on the medical examiner’s table. "