There were times when she wanted to kill him ( Read more... )

At one time she had used pain to help her to feel alive but now all she does is kiss him when she's starting to go numb.

9. "The bad thing about falling to pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards there is nothing left to protect, and so you have no reason not to be honest."  -David James Duncan

"Please, no more.  I want to stop."  Claire pushed at the book, sliding it off of her lap in an irritated move.  She moved it ( Read more... )

4. Maybe not everything is supposed to last forever. Certain things are like skywriting; like a really beautiful thing that only lasts for a couple moments. --Little ManhattanClaire had been standing in the same spot for at least a half an hour and it seemed she wasn't going to move any time soon. Probably something that worried her husband as he ( Read more... )

Claire is tired and on edge, sitting at her desk with her head resting on folded hands.  Things have been worse since she sent the Haitian away which she had done to protect him but she is beginning to feel like she had sent away her only ally in doing so.  The others are harsher now and they're no longer hiding their gazes or biting their tongues ( Read more... )

1. "This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven."  -Road to Perdition

"All I know is that the body is somewhere in Austria."  Claire murmured quietly into the phone as she sat in the back of the car that she had been given for whenever she needed to see to things.  Not by the Secret ( Read more... )

The blood was everywhere.

“We’re never going to find the body.”  The Haitian’s accent is almost soothing to her but every word is a little stab to her conscience.

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When people looked at Claire, they only saw a few key traits.  Blonde curls, a small smile, a petite body and that she was pretty.  They underestimated her because of it and she learned eventually how to use that to her advantage.  Why not do so?  She had learned that people didn't care much about age, size or how you looked when they wanted to win ( Read more... )

Claire had denied him for as long as she could.  He constantly reminded her that he didn't need her permission but yet he never played that hand against her.  Sure, he would cut her head open and steal her power but he wouldn't go so far as taking her against her will.  Supposedly he had some lines that he wouldn't cross and strangely enough, she ( Read more... )

Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Young girls should never make the sacrifices that she has had to make.  She tells herself every day that it is worth it, that it was the right thing to do and it was the only way.  She tells herself all the time that there was nothing else that she could have done to end things; to stop them ( Read more... )