“There’s no such thing as truth, that’s what I learned,” she said. “Only opinions people want you to believe as truth.” — Taylor Stevens Truth Copy Share Image
“She felt invisible shackles snaking around her wrists and ankles, took a deep breath and said……” — Taylor Stevens Creativity Copy Share Image
“... people were inevitably superficial and reacted differently to poison when it was aesthetically pleasing.” — Taylor Stevens Poison Copy Share Image
Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the… — Taylor Stevens Failure Copy Share Image
“Welcome to the world of difficult choices. You’re doing a brave thing, Neeva, but it only counts if the ones you love… — Taylor Stevens Choices Copy Share Image
“Hope. The activity of the impotent. His was a world of action, of relying on his own wits and ability to create… — Taylor Stevens Hope Copy Share Image
It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on… — Taylor Stevens Collapse Copy Share Image
“One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for… — Taylor Stevens Aimlessness Copy Share Image
“Revenge is best left to fantasy,” Munroe said. “It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with… — Taylor Stevens Death Copy Share Image
“No," Natan said. "That would be altruistic. There is no such thing, not even for Mother Teresa." He jabbed his finer at… — Taylor Stevens Mother teresa Copy Share Image
“This doll-guy situation is an extreme of what I deal with in everyday life, where men believe that what they want I… — Taylor Stevens Crime Copy Share Image
“Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure… — Taylor Stevens Broken Copy Share Image
“But people like the doll guy who sells women and the dog guy who buys women, and other guys who, say, rape… — Taylor Stevens Crime Copy Share Image
“Do not let her hear your language, the source had said, she will use language as a weapon. Keep the area around… — Taylor Stevens Kill Copy Share Image
“Bradford paused and his expression shadowed. He pulled her back and held her tight. Whispered, “Don’t say it, okay? I know what’s… — Taylor Stevens Kissed Copy Share Image
“You repay the debt,” he said. “That should be more than enough." “What if I disagree? And what if, after all your… — Taylor Stevens Gaze Copy Share Image
“Clothing, hair, shoes, accessories: these were props, visual cues, that people used to filter information and make instant assessments out of random… — Taylor Stevens Body language Copy Share Image
“Why are you dressed as a man?" Neeva said. "Why do you act like..." She paused. "Why do you act like... like… — Taylor Stevens Abuse Copy Share Image
“Slumped to the floor. The pit of blackness welcomed her to let go and fall into the murky depths where conscience and… — Taylor Stevens End result Copy Share Image
“With a boot on his chest, she used her free hand to search for the syringe he surely carried. Found it. Jabbed… — Taylor Stevens Carried Copy Share Image
“Arben was large. Strong. Armed. And these, his strengths, were his greatest weaknesses. Brute force and the ability to control others through… — Taylor Stevens Strengths Greatest Copy Share Image
“This was home: running along a razor's edge of self-induced terror, calculating mortality against probability. Assignments were the reprieve. When she was… — Taylor Stevens Abroad Copy Share Image
Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent… — Taylor Stevens Block Copy Share Image
“The aloneness. The invisible walls. Always the outsider looking in. Different. Unusual. I despise their world and the superficiality of it all… — Taylor Stevens Aloneness Copy Share Image
“The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.” — Taylor Stevens Compassion Copy Share Image
“And like the randomness of life’s chaos, the decision to let him live was a coin toss. Just as she currently fought… — Taylor Stevens Hope for the best Copy Share Image
“If he touches me, I’ll kill him.” Rattle on a snake, a dog’s growl to prevent a bite, her warning was meant… — Taylor Stevens History Copy Share Image
“Vanessa Michael Munroe was a killer with a predator’s natural instincts; she could take care of herself. What scared him—terrified him—was what… — Taylor Stevens Nature Copy Share Image
“She hovered above the mental abyss, kept from falling by force of will. Shut out the world by descending into darkness, the… — Taylor Stevens Darkness Copy Share Image
“By the time they passed Malindi in the early-afternoon hours, Munroe could feel the syntax, the grammar, the resonance of patterns of… — Taylor Stevens Every moment Copy Share Image
