Quotes from Tia Williams

Lizette would never get it. Eva needed her for everything. She'd just never had her.

she was reminded that he was just a person. He mad massive mistakes, he felt things, he was sorry, ad he was trying to find his way, like everyone else.

But part of her calm was also knowing that those abysmal final years of their relationship could never happen to the person she was now. There's no way she could let a man make her feel so unseen for so long. Now she knew what it was like to be seen.

Years ago, she'd thought love wasn't real unless it drew blood

Do you think we'll ever get over it?" asked Eric. "I know that I'll never be over you. But maybe that's okay. Maybe I'll meet someone that I can love in a different way, and be happy.

You put me back together when I was in pieces. You gave me confidence, and reminded me that I was lovable. You saved me.

P.S. The older I get, the more I wonder if the secret to true happiness is knowing which dreams to let go of.

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

I wanted to drown in your fucking bathwater

You don't promise things to kids and then disappear.

Shane and Eva were her writer children. And as their mama, she had a right to get to the bottom of their situationship.

Go 'head and judge me, miss. I fear nothing but the pitiless gaze of the Almighty. You could be Mommie Dearest or Clair Huxtable—don't matter what kind of mother you are; daughters always blame moms for every mess they make.

And then, for the first time ever, Shane ignored what he desperately wanted and made his first truly responsible decision.

Just be kind to yourself.

The day had left him in knots, and now Shane had a restless, bone-deep itch to be in her vicinity. He wanted to watch her do things, say things. Hold her hand, make her laugh. Fuck her senseless. Give her everything she hadn't had in so long. Give her the best of him.

Finally, Shane angled the microphone up and spoke five words. "This is for the misfit.

So instead of writing about Gia, a witch who uses her powers to fight for a man, I'm fighting for myself.

How do you finish a love story that you...you never wanted to end?

I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

I just don't like being alone. Because then I miss you too much. I start wanting to be where I can't be, and I hate that feeling.

She kept shifting it around her hips. It was a sample-size 2, which was really a 0, and Eva was a size 4 but a PMS 6.

I just keep waiting for it not to hurt so bad. Every time I meet a woman, I want her to be you. And these sweet, pretty, smart girls fail so miserably. There's nothing wrong with them; they're just not you. You know that 'other half' people spend their life looking for? I already found her. She's somewhere watching Inside the Actor's Studio and eating yellow Skittles without me. I know who she is. But I can't have her.

felt passion like that once," Belinda mused. "Remember Kai, the bouncer from that Bushwick hookah spot? He fucked the soul out of me one evening, and I turned over and wrote a sonnet called 'Skyscrapers Penetrating the Night Sky.

Shane was the memory she couldn't escape. The bridge she'd never burn. The