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You got me a bodyguard, like I’m Whitney Houston or something.”
One of my indulgences, when I wanted to dive into the world of romantic fantasy, was a series of vampire warriors. The man in front of me might’ve stepped out of the pages and been one of the members of J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood.
But if the good Lord gives you enough years to turn you into an old man, might as well be a dirty old man.”
“Books are an escape. At least the good ones. No matter what your life is like, no matter what’s going on with the people around you or how lonely or sad you feel, you can open the pages and get lost. You can find new worlds, live adventures, or simply discover new friends and families.”
“Sometimes they help you believe in magic. Help you believe that you can change your life, become someone new, start over.”
Now books are just a wonderful part of being alive. Even when you don’t have to use them to hide away from your own life, they make each day better, more beautiful.”
“Book club, I told you. We’ve been reading the Made Marian series. It’s gay romance. There’s a scene in the book we’re reading, Delivering Dante, that happens during a sex-toy party. They use the dildos to demonstrate how to give a proper blowjob.”
“There’s a lot of love in this world. There’s a whole hell of a lot of loss. But there’s a lot of love.”
So that was what love was. Loving someone so much that you simultaneously wanted to smother them with a pillow, because they were pissing you off so badly and yet needing to wrap them in your arms and hold them just so you could breathe.
