Kelly Moran

“Matters of the heart were important, but people tended to put too much stock in the particular organ when, in retrospect, it was only tissue. It pumped blood and the body couldn’t live without it, sure, but it had no actual bearing on love. The soul was what made a person distinct—the part that lived on after death, how one being connected to another, and what bound essence.”

“He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.”

“Lucifer was engraving Nate’s name on a cage right now.”

“Orgasms are a myth. Like good credit scores.”

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.”

“We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.”

“Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn’t mean they should.”

“You keep looking at me like that and we won't make it through dinner. I'll take you right there on that counter. No doubt you'd taste better.”

“Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a distinct possibility.”

“The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.”

“At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.”

“The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.”

“He couldn’t grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands.”

“I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.”

“She had platonic all but tattooed on her forehead.”

“Beauty like hers had no place in his life.”

“I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze.”

“When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.”

“Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he’d joke about it like she did.”

“An hour in her presence, and he was ready to hit his knees, submit to her every whim.”