“She settled for patting him vaguely on the back and wishing she was anywhere but there. Although he did smell good.” — Stacia Kane Patting Copy Share Image
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“Oh, who was she kidding? She wasn’t fucking lucky. But hope sprang eternal, for whatever stupid reason.” — Stacia Kane Hope Copy Share Image
“Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts” — Stacia Kane Addiction Copy Share Image
“Damn. Six feet four and everything in proportion, the quote went. It was true in this case.” — Stacia Kane Proportion Copy Share Image
“Chessie … shit, Chessie, I love you so bad.” His teeth on her throat, biting hard, his lips soothing the spot. “So… — Stacia Kane Gaze Copy Share Image
“Shit. You so fuckin pretty, Chessie. True thing. So … ain’t even can breathe sometimes.” — Stacia Kane Breathe Copy Share Image
“His hand touched the back of her neck, gave a gentle squeeze. "Takes a many of them make one almost as good… — Stacia Kane Gaze Copy Share Image
“What are you doing here?” They shared one of those awkward kiss-hug-or-what moments, ending up kissing on the cheek. Odd, that. She… — Stacia Kane Gaze Copy Share Image
“If Mrs. Morton would stop verbally jacking off her husband and son, this would all be done so much more quickly, but… — Stacia Kane Marriage Copy Share Image
“People never looked up. They looked down, they looked from side to side, but almost never did they think to tilt their… — Stacia Kane Tilt Copy Share Image
“What the hell was the matter with these people? How did they not see that of all the people on the planet,… — Stacia Kane Emotional problems Copy Share Image
“Oh shit, she'd done that wrong, hadn't she? She'd said that wrong, he didn't understand what she meant. She'd thought he would… — Stacia Kane Read between the lines Copy Share Image
“She listened for Terrible's voice in her head and didn't hear it. Of course, she also couldn't feel her extremities. But life… — Stacia Kane Heart Copy Share Image
“Shit. I want you, Chess. Make no mistake on that one, dig? Want you bad. So bad I ain’t even can think… — Stacia Kane Failure Copy Share Image
“She'd never been able to resist temptation - especially an unhealthy one - and at that moment he was another pill, another… — Stacia Kane Temptation Copy Share Image
“But she never thought about the way Terrible looked, at least not that way. He hadn’t been ugly to her for months;… — Stacia Kane Dark eyes Copy Share Image
“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Books Copy Share Image
“But as much as Greyson's overly warm body had to be worked around and compensated for in summer, at that moment she… — Stacia Kane Gaze Copy Share Image
“You ain’t know nothing,” a man scoffed. “How I’m supposed to trust some junkie Churchwitch-” The words sliced through her like razor-sharp… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“I’m not into danger, either.” “Aw, Chess. You so into it you ain’t climb out with a rope. Why else you do… — Stacia Kane Chess Copy Share Image
“Changed my thought. Let’s us go. Back my place, aye?” He was smiling, that smile she’d always loved, while his hands distracted… — Stacia Kane Attraction Copy Share Image
“She was alive, and she was stuck in this fucking tunnel, and she had just broken a fuck of a hex ward,… — Stacia Kane Heart Copy Share Image
“So don’t go, she wanted to say, but she couldn’t. Not when he looked so happy, so excited about what his future… — Stacia Kane Normal people Copy Share Image
“HOw did you tell someone the truth when you weren't even sure what that was?” — Stacia Kane Tell Copy Share Image
“Meaning to ask, where'd all them scratches come from? Lookin like you had yourself a knife fight with a dwarf, aye?” — Stacia Kane Scratches Copy Share Image
“Love you too Chess. You got that aye? Ain't you know it? Love you right, till it hurts. Ain't going nowhere…………” — Stacia Kane Hurts Copy Share Image
“His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love you so bad." His… — Stacia Kane Biting Copy Share Image
“Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would… — Stacia Kane Bizarre Copy Share Image
“And what was the point of an easy answer like that. Where did it lead. Nowhere good, in his experience. Easy answers… — Stacia Kane Addiction Copy Share Image
“Aw, naw, ain’t sayin that. You do what you need an ain’t try telling you no, but … takin you to bed,… — Stacia Kane Sayin Need Copy Share Image
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“Not that Beulah didn't present her own set of problems. She did. Not least of which was fighting the temptation to fake… — Stacia Kane Heart Copy Share Image
“Fuck, she was so sick of herself-herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do this shit all the time, this… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“Terrible was... He was a miracle in a world without miracles, and she couldn't believe her luck. And there was nothing, absolutely… — Stacia Kane Life Copy Share Image
“Would Terrible actually have killed me if I hadn’t agreed to come up?” “It’s entirely possible, yeah.” She said it like it… — Stacia Kane Big deal Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t going to lie and she wasn’t going to try to hide Terrible or who he was. She loved him and… — Stacia Kane Heart Copy Share Image
“Bump looked from one of them to the other. “What we fuckin got here, you playin a fuckin show-an-tell? I ought should… — Stacia Kane Bump Copy Share Image
“Instead of more money she ended up with more drugs. Something told her that was probably not healthy. Something else in her… — Stacia Kane Drugs Copy Share Image
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