bookmate game
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Lady Be Good

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
  • maryphillips2814has quoted6 years ago
    storms and covers the bridge, but I still love having it in my front yard.”

    And that’s exactly where it was, Emma realized—in his front yard. Kenny’s ranch house sat at the top of a gently sloping bit of lawn shaded here and there with live oaks. The house itself was a graceful rambling structure built of creamy white limestone with smoky blue shutters and trim. Twin limestone chimneys rose from the expansive tin roof she’d already seen on so many buildings in the area, and a galloping horse weather vane turned lazily in the April
  • Maria Stensgaard Rasmussenhas quoted8 years ago
    My mother spent her life on that thin edge between neurosis and psychosis, with psychosis winning out as she got older. She was a classic narcissist married to a man who ignored her, so, as soon as I was born, she made me the center of her life. Whatever I wanted, she gave me, even if I shouldn’t have had it. She never said no, not about anything. And because of that, I was supposed to worship her.”
    “Did you?”
    “Of course not. I paid her back with bad behavior, and the more she indulged me, the more I pushed her. Then, whenever something did go wrong in my life, I blamed her for it. I was just about the most unpleasant child you can imagine.”
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    She decided she could kiss Dexter O’Conner for hours.
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    And today . . . one minute they’d been arguing, and the next thing he knew, they were skin-to-skin in his car.
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    Maybe he felt the same way she did, that there was something dangerous about so much urgency, something distinctly threatening about two incompatible adults being so wild to get their hands all over each other that they couldn’t wait to find a bed.
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    I’m certain you were desperate for his attention, and misbehavior must have been the only way you could get it.
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    You were a healthy little boy being suffocated by a highly neurotic mother, and your father didn’t seem to have interceded when he should have. Really, Kenny, you received such appalling parenting that it’s a wonder you didn’t end up mutilating small animals. It’s not surprising that you still resent him.”
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    Somehow she felt bolder here, and, in a way she couldn’t explain, less limited.
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    There was something special about this state that she couldn’t help but respond to: its energy, its people, and its sheer, raw size. She found herself taking a long, deep breath for no reason, almost as if her lungs had developed a larger capacity
  • b8740491315has quoted8 years ago
    Then they spent their afternoons together. She’d never laughed so much, or argued so much either. Her body felt warm and languid from Kenny’s lovemaking, and she couldn’t imagine how she would ever live without it or without him.
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)