If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

He kept his eyes on mine, his gaze unblinking, and I stared right back into the blue. He moved almost imperceptibly and in the space between a heartbeat his lips touched mine.

Trust me, ’ he says with a touch of impatience.‘Stop asking me to do that, ’ I say, equally as impatiently.

I need a favour.’I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a favour? He’s a stranger. And he’s wearing handcuffs.

I breathed in the memory of his lips, the softness of them, and how they felt tracing across my skin, leaving ripples of goosebumps in their wake.

Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

I couldn't bear the thought of Alex looking at me like I was a freak. It was bad enough that the looked at me as Jack's sister.

We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.

Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.