“It would take a long time until I laughed again, really laughed, or felt genuinely happy, but this was a start. I… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“From afar, Alex Winslow looked like nothing could penetrate his armor. But he was an artist—and an artist’s armor is full of… — L.J. Shen Art Copy Share Image
“Why was he acting like we were total strangers? I wanted to strangle and kiss the hell out of him and jump… — L.J. Shen Strangers Copy Share Image
“It was a mistake of epic proportions, I knew that. And just like any huge mistake, payback was going to be painful.… — L.J. Shen Failure Copy Share Image
“Whatever we were, we were toxic. A lullaby on a thoroughly scratched record that keeps hiccuping again and again on the line… — L.J. Shen Lullaby Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I lay with you in a bed of glass We broke together trying to survive your past Still, in your pain… — L.J. Shen Beauty Copy Share Image
“I’d finally found him. The one man scarier than my father. Not that I was looking. Because while Vicious made a lot… — L.J. Shen Parenting Copy Share Image
“I just received some very bad fucking news, and I’m really in the mood for some torturing. One last time—where’s the fucker?”… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“You deserve everything. Wife, kids, a white picket fence.” “And I’ll have all of it. With you.” “You know that can’t happen… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“I was going to do it. I was really going to do something selfless for once in my life since Cat and… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“He came to me in pieces, like a painting in the works. His gray-blue eyes were the first to pop out from… — L.J. Shen Fear Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid,” he said, “my mother had lovebirds. She used to clip their wings so when she let them… — L.J. Shen Failure Copy Share Image
“He deserved more than a girl who couldn’t tell him how she felt. He was perfect, and I was flawed. “Promise me.”… — L.J. Shen Every night Copy Share Image
“Over the past few months, I had taken every precaution to avoid the local papers and Internet sites. I did everything, other… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Dean ‘Ruckus’ Cole was a different kind of asshole to Baron ‘Vicious’ Spencer. He fucked you over with a polite smile on… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“He did atrocious things, but it was him I wanted. Always, only him. Troy stopped when we were nose to nose. Toe… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“He was no knight in shining armor, a far cry from a savior. He was just a broken, sad boy who was… — L.J. Shen Knight in shining armor Copy Share Image
“How can it feel this good?” she nearly protested, reaching with her hand to touch me again. I moved away quickly, still… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Ask me what I want,” Vicious murmured into my face. The public display of affection from him—not sexual, not bullying, but pure,… — L.J. Shen Affection Copy Share Image
“OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, my wedding to Troy Brennan was a beautiful event. Obscenely lavish and obnoxiously wasteful. Brennan spared no expense when it… — L.J. Shen Beauty Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was going to do the right thing, and I wished it felt better, because… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Everybody’s watching us. People are talking about us,” she said, her voice small. “Do you care?” She hesitated, looking down at the… — L.J. Shen High heels Copy Share Image
“Can you keep a secret? Sometimes I look at you and all I see is regret My little passion pit is out… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“it was violent and needy. It was a cancer, spreading inside my body, multiplying into hundreds and thousands of new cells with… — L.J. Shen Cancer Copy Share Image
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“Now, let me tell you something about my album. Midnight Blue broke the record for fastest-recording album in the history of that… — L.J. Shen Midnight blue Copy Share Image
“I was going to yell my lungs out when I got to her for pulling this kind of shit. Once I got… — L.J. Shen Break free Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles was like a B-Grade prostitute. She let anyone in, looked less than average, and once inside, you realized there was… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Are you calm now?” Trent’s voice caressed the crown of my head. “Physically, yes. But we’re entering danger territory. I’ve never been… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Group hug!” Daisy announced, and before I knew it, I was buried in my friends’ arms. I inhaled their scents, feminine and… — L.J. Shen Closing my eyes Copy Share Image
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