

“Aurelia, not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?" "How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me to the beehive.”
― Taming Flame
― Taming Flame

“The horse’s ears twitched as she spoke.
“I hope you’ll forgive any of my rookie mistakes. You see, I’ve become both a novice rancher and a fake widow today.â€� She tilted her head, loosening the tense muscles in her neck. “How many people can say that, huh?”
― Colorado Takedown
“I hope you’ll forgive any of my rookie mistakes. You see, I’ve become both a novice rancher and a fake widow today.â€� She tilted her head, loosening the tense muscles in her neck. “How many people can say that, huh?”
― Colorado Takedown

“It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? ”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox
“A large, white, winged horse stands before me, wings outspread and nostrils dilated, she writes. He tells me that he is here to carry me into the moonlit realms of imagination, dreams, and intuition. He uses his hooves to strike at the ground of my being, to trigger wellsprings of poetic inspiration and artistic creativity fed by memories of times long since past, memories that often creep into the dream time. Furthermore, he says the deep unconscious â€� in the form of a magician’s spell â€� is calling to me to remember who I have been and who I am destined to be.”
― Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery
― Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery

“Somethings wrong,â€� he told her.
‘Be specific Jack,� she said pressuring him.
Jack turned again to the desert. ‘We should already be dead,â€� he said. ‘That’s what’s wrong.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
‘Be specific Jack,� she said pressuring him.
Jack turned again to the desert. ‘We should already be dead,â€� he said. ‘That’s what’s wrong.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
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