“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 Evil 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 Helga 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Barbara Samuel Life 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… — Barbara Samuel Friends 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… — Barbara Samuel Solomon 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… — Barbara Samuel Black hair 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."… — Barbara Samuel Feminism 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… — Barbara Samuel Heart and soul 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… — Barbara Samuel Life Copy Share Image
“Yesterday in the restaurant, she’d seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she’d seen his danger. This morning, at the… — Barbara Samuel Beauty Copy Share Image
“Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.” — Barbara Samuel Change Copy Share Image
“He looked up at the rain and closed his eyes, his hands still wrapped around her back. Mattie knew with an acute… — Barbara Samuel Rain Copy Share Image
“There is so little joy in any life, I will take this time with you until I must go." He smoothed a… — Barbara Samuel Joy Copy Share Image
Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever. — Barbara Samuel Expecting Copy Share Image
