LOVE STORIES

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE THAT. THIS BLOG POST IS FOR TRUE LOVERS.

A Line A Day: In Love With Love Stories? https://t.co/Oviv5Sbtay #ValentinesDay approaches

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Looking to get a Valentine's Day gift for your favorite bookworm?... https://t.co/r6cc7vuNUQ

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DANGEROUS HABITS https://t.co/oDOP2phYzk a #shortstory for #ValentinesDay

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LESSONS https://t.co/C4xWUVd7PT a #shortstory for #ValentinesDay

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I love them all in my fashion. For me, love means never forgetting. http://t.co/2gChdexJ72 #FeedingTheSquirrels - A Novella Serialized

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Where it starts. The prologue to #FeedingTheSquirrels https://t.co/ohqTOvZcnl

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http://t.co/OIPcvudQhm #Quotes #GoodReads #FeedingTheSquirrels http://t.co/kv6BkgRtS3

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Imagery from #FeedingTheSquirrels http://t.co/yMVxDTqb3C

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BEWARE THE FRIEND ZONE - ESPECIALLY ON VALENTINE'S DAY

My 2nd novel Matters of Convenience chronicles the hazards of this zone. Tread carefully. https://t.co/kqkJXwNYRD https://t.co/DXf9hf3fIL

— Roy Pickering (@AuthorofPatches) February 5, 2016

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late. ~ from MATTERS OF CONVENIENCE

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. We each search for the person put here specifically for us and play a guessing game with whoever comes along. One of them will be the one we were waiting for. In the midst of uncertainties this inarguable truth sustains us, even if it isn’t true. ~ from MATTERS OF CONVENIENCE

They all believed back then that love lasted forever. By now they surely knew as did he that forever was a treacherous myth, though probably a necessary one. ~ from PATCHES OF GREY

So he decided to suffer from selective amnesia. Forgotten would be the sound of Janet’s laughter; the feel of her lips against his skin; the way her hair spread out over his chest as they lay in repose; the look on her face as they made love; the sound of her voice when she said he was her sun and moon and stars. Only by deleting heaven from his memory did he have a chance to survive on earth. ~ from PATCHES OF GREY

The genesis of their love was physical attraction, and his complexion had lured her the same as hers undoubtedly pulled him. It was not his blackness that she fell in love with, but it was a part of him, and therefore, a part of what she loved. ~ from PATCHES OF GREY

Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for good reason. Perhaps everything on God’s green earth was the result of a flawless plan, even that which seemed most muddled. ~ from PATCHES OF GREY

LOVE TAKES SO MANY SPLENDID FORMS

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