“Clutching his prize, Erik felt his face widen. She smiled back at him. Neither of them had said so much as hello yet she was looking at him with those eyes. Deep in the cathedral of his young being, Erik felt a bell toll, a peal of recognition. And for the rest of his life, he would swear, he would swear to anyone who asked, although nothing was said aloud, he heard Daisy Bianco speak to him. She said it with her eyes, he heard it clearly in his head, and it wasn’t hello.
It was, “Well, here you are.”
Here I am, he thought.
Her expression grew expansive. The green in her eyes deepened.
David cleared his throat. “Go put some shoes on, honey. Nails are all over the damn place.”
“See ya,” she said, looking at Erik. Her voice was soft, a secret meant only for his ears.
“Bye.” His mouth formed the word with barely a sound. It rose like a shimmering bubble and followed Daisy out the door.
Pointedly David retrieved his lunch. Erik surrendered it, and through the glass of the lighting booth he watched Daisy walk back down the aisle of the auditorium. Sat and watched her as the atoms in his body slowly rearranged themselves.”
“But then the light hit the back of Iris’s hair, a golden-blue halo circling her features. The single braid she wore twisted around the side of her neck, dipping down to her waist, the small curls that framed her face an ethereal gold. She turned to face him fully, then, meeting his too-long stare. And the halo was gone.”
Source: The Music of Monsters
“Love may happen by chance, but it must be nurtured by choice.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Yes. I was afraid of falling too hard, too fast, of leaping into something that might leave me stranded on the other side — alone.”
“But what if they ask about us? I thought. What if this falls apart?”
Source: The Insatiable: A sinister tale of an elusive mastermind
“This is it,” I thought. “This is my moment.”
Source: The Insatiable: A sinister tale of an elusive mastermind
“Now I am exposed. Not entirely, but enough. It’s terrifying. He has demanded this of me, but because the walls I built so carefully, brick by brick, have started to crumble.”
Source: The Insatiable: A sinister tale of an elusive mastermind
“You’re insufferable, you know that?”
Source: The Insatiable: A sinister tale of an elusive mastermind
“You are more. You’re allowed to want more.”
Source: The Insatiable: A sinister tale of an elusive mastermind
“He glared, only to lose his breath. Eyes dark, she peered at him from within the shadow of a tan Stetson.”
Source: The Bandit's Redemption