Terri Adele

“I thought I would die wanting you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“Faith guides you in a principal of being a good person and doing good things. Religion gives you an excuse to do nasty things in the name of God for profit. Therefore, we are in a post-religious society that has monetized religion and worship it as its own entity.”
― Olivia Gaines, Buckeye and the Babe

“A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn’t have done one thing to be proud of.”
― Walter Mosley, Down the River Unto the Sea

“There is no point getting angry at a bad hand, he had used to say. Especially if the dealer cheated when distributing the cards. Anger leads to mistakes. Don’t get angry; that’s what they want. Get calm. They’ll never expect you to do that. Don’t get angry; get creative. Take the hand you have and see whether you might not be holding something your enemy has overlooked. Don’t get angry at the cards; get the dealer out of the game.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding