I loathe being crimped into this deplorable position on the vampyre chessboard.

Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

Eyes darker than a midnight lake penetrate my thoughts with their intensity, and a big hand warmly covers mine

she shakes her head, fisting hands into my t-shirt and sobbing into my neck. And all I can think about is how good this feels

You can only push me so far little slakax, and then I will do what has to be done, with or without your permission.

Facing him as I lower the glass from my lips, he's giving me one of those intense moonlit stares.

He sits next to me, the veins on his neck and arms seeming more prominent than they did earlier. His mouth compresses, igniting his eyes with esoteric light, pulling me into the magnetic undertow.

I'm a tundra with wind endlessly blowing a hollow tunnel through me.

Naïve, and very very dangerous. If she only knew what treacherous waters she has just stepped into.

God bless you butterfly, because now I'm claiming you like no mate has ever been claimed in the history of our kind

He gives me the stare that only men can do. The mouth tightening exasperation stare.

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

You are whole body, whole mind, whole spirit, all the time. When you experience all of you at once, anything is possible.