“The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.”

“I feel alive when you kiss me.”

“This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.”

“Cowboys don’t go around breaking hearts.”

“There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.”

“When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.”

“She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.”

“There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.”

“Synthetic chocolate sounds wrong.”

“She was in control of her life, even though it seemed she wasn’t. All she had to do was take the steering wheel and start driving.”

“Earth girls aren’t easy.”