“Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.” — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.” — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“For in twin pairs of eyes she saw not the lust she had believed, but love. Adoration, given and received.” — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“His mouth was wet and hot and intensely demanding, so sharp and piercing with need that it broke through Mattie’s defenses the way nothing… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“He kissed her before he knew he would do it. Cupped her small head against his hand and bent to touch her lips with… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“Mattie watched him cross the clearing with long-limbed ease, his movements loose and calm. His hair shone in the sunlight. Her heart caught. Strider.… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“She came apart, and Zeke let go, driving into her without restraint, thrilling to the cry that escaped her throat. Her body convulsed around… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“He kissed her violently, wanting to somehow inhale her into himself, unable to stop the fury of his reaction, the trembling rocking hunger for… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“His mouth. It touched hers lightly, just touched at first. And it seemed every nerve in her body suddenly rushed toward her mouth to… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“sometimes life is really hard. It just is. Things happen that make you want to die, but if you hang on, they do eventually… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?” — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“In all those women there is not one to match you. They have known my flesh. You have known my heart, and stolen my… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“The man was in his late thirties, with coarse black hair and a powerfully angled face. The horse with him made a sudden noise,… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“It's not being a woman I mind so much," she said slowly. "'Tis the way men seem to always order my life." She leaned… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“I would rather love with all my heart and soul and mind for one hour than to suffer all my life with the lack.” — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“She wanted him. Not in the sweet way of poetry, though there was that music in the symmetry of his body, in the careful… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
