Quotes from Tia Williams

You're a sane person reacting to an insane situation.

shiver she couldn't shake. Maybe this was just her burden, to carry the weight of missing him forever. Because who knew when he'd feel stable enough to be with her in a complete way? The reality was he might never get there.

An angel among mortals.

Also, she missed her mom. They'd just chatted on the phone, and she'd sounded so serious. And distracted, as if she were speaking to Audre from galaxies away. Audre knew her mother, so she knew what was wrong. What was missing. And there was only one person who could help.

I know too much, he said, his words weighted with old pain. The kind that makes a home on the fringes of your thoughts forever.

It sounds like it tastes good.

Do you think this thing between us will ever wear off? Because I'm starting to feel like it won't. And fighting it seems…" "Pointless.

I've been roaming around forever, and I've never been anywhere I wasn't itching to leave.

After writing (and sobbing and writing and sobbing) for hours, she was more than a bit delirious. Dizzy from pain. Loopy from meds. Fiercely proud of what she'd written. Desperate for waffles. Itchy from Spanx. And then, of course, there was her heart.

By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It's so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y'all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.

How do you know anything about me? You're not on social media." "Nah, people are strange enough in real life. I don't need to view their psychosis through a zany filter.

During his lost years, he hadn't wanted people to see how unstable he was. Of course, sobriety had shown him that everyone was a little bit off. His shit was just closer to the surface.

The concept of 'father' just feels made up, like Santa or the Easter Bunny.

The whole afternoon was delicious—so much so that Shane was already nostalgic for it before it had even ended.

Whether I lose you for years or wake up to your face every morning. I love you. You're my home. And I want you forever.

It was all a fine line in the South, she'd say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

I want to be everything", he said, his mouth against her ear. "I want to be the reason you light up. I want to make you laugh, make you moan, make you safe. I want to be the thought that lulls you to sleep, the memory that gets you off. I want to be where all your paths end. I want to do everything you do to me.

Sickness wasn't sexy. And her disability was invisible—she wasn't missing a limb or in a full-body cast. Her level of suffering seemed impossible for others to fathom.

Arousal through biting is a thing, you know. It's called odaxelagnia,

Renee was entering her acquisitions meeting with the air of Scarlett throwing the Yankees off Tara. Renee was all about going into battle. She wore a fitted gray BCBG pantsuit and her shaggy bob sleekly tucked behind her ears. She was Not Fucking Around.

Men don't define our journey. It's about honoring our queendom. Vibrating at our divine plane.

No matter how perilous the journey, it's never over for true soul mates. Who doesn't want a connection that burns forever, despite distance, time, and curses?

Billie and Jay flung themselves at each other like pigskin-crazed quarterbacks from opposing teams—unflinching, unmindful of the outcome, and likely to suffer a concussion.

Why do you keep writing about me?" "Isn't it obvious?" "Apparently not." "I'm not just writing about you," said Shane. "I'm writing to you.