Amanda

“Her gaze leaves mine and drops to my mouth. With trembling fingers she touches my lips, and I can’t wait a second longer.
Yes, I can. Don’t be a prat.
The notebook slides from her other hand and she raises up on her tip toes, her lips almost even with mine now.
I’m absolutely drunk as I inhale her warm breath. Yet somehow I still hold back. This has to be all her.
My insides spindle around each other when her lips slant over mine, and she kisses me with incredible sweetness. Keeping a grip on the bottom of Emilie’s t-shirt is the only thing that stops me from pulling her full-on against me. I want to toss her to a bed and chase the sweetness away, but that would be bad.”
― Lisa Terry

“You will be back by then Ellen, wont you? I'm keeping this notebook safe for you because I want to believe you'll read it someday, and you'll know I never stopped hoping you'd come home.”
― Natasha Mac a'Bhaird, Missing Ellen

“Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams.....their demons”
― Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark

“The dream girl exits stage left.”
― Lisa Terry, Moment