12 Quotes by Anne Calhoun

The guy snarled out a string of profanity describing his night with Conn's mother."Sounds about right," Conn said, but Matt didn't miss the glint in Conn's eye. "She's been dead for twenty years, but dead's probably the only way you get laid.

I'm not trying to rescue her. She can rescue herself. I just want to give her a reason to try.

You don't have to be better, or healed, or over your husband. You just have to be here. That's all I'm asking for. I'm not asking for forever. I'm just asking you to be here, now, with me.

There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing.

How can you even think about being awake in the world, let alone caring about someone?""Because they may be gone, but I'm not. I honor their memories by living, not by becoming the walking dead.

When you get everything aligned, when love welcomes the longing, accepts it, learns to live with it, you make love.

I meant you're very, very persuasive and I doubt I'd resist for long if you set your mind to convincing me.""Say no sometime. Let me persuade you.

It was easy to be with her, so easy he forgot about the rest of the world.

I want to take you upstairs, and turn off the lights, and watch your skin turn pink as I move inside you. When I’ve kissed you and your skin’s marked by my mouth, you look like a rose in the moonlight. It gets darker when I’m moving inside you, that blood flush.