I’ll take stolen kisses and trysts in the cane fields for as long as I live over a life without you in it.

I want to rip the rest of those buttons open and climb him like a monkey in a banana tree. Oh God, what I would do with his banana...

She’s not ready and maybe she never will be, but I won’t stop trying. I’ll be patient if it kills me. I can just see it now. Cooper Hebert died of blue balls and a broken heart.

Those ties...those ties are forever, and I never wanted to be connected to any other person so permanently. Forever was always meant for you and me, Spence.

My breath catches in my throat as a chill makes me shiver, leaving gooseflesh in its wake. My eyes latch on to his, pleading with him to kiss me.

My mouth crashes onto hers, and as our bodies sway in time to the music, our tongues dance to a rhythm that’s all their own. Spencer tastes of liquor and spearmint gum. She smells like heaven.

How ’bout you take this Cajun injector here, ” I say, gripping the steel rod in his shorts, “and give me a shot of protein instead.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Only humans can voice the adoration and plea that goes up silently from the rest of creation, and only humans can withhold their voices from it.

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?