Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she became
resourceful.
She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, even
when she claimed defeat.
An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,
betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.
She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.
She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.
Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraid
to rely on so she didn’t know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,
without guilt.
She didn’t want to win and she didn’t want to lose.
Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gaps
between hope and despair.


G.G. Renee Hill

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Jalal," she said, "I can explain."
"There's no need."
"I'm not - "
"I told you; there...
RENEE AHDIEH
Jalal shook his head and moved toward Khalid. "She is. Please give her a chance to explain."
"L...
RENEE AHDIEH
Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto...
RENEE AHDIEH
I love you, she said. Khalid lifted his head to hers. She placed a hand against his cheek. Beyond wo...
RENEE AHDIEH
The mighty Caliph of Khorasan. The King of Kings. Her beautiful monster.
RENEE AHDIEH
And how will you know when you've found the elusive someone?
I suspect she will be like air. Li...
RENEE AHDIEH
With each word, he broke past every barrier, every wall. And Sharazad's will fought him, screamed a ...
RENEE AHDIEH
Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done.
RENEE AHDIEH
Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH
Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me...
RENEE AHDIEH
Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH
The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH
You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and yo...
RENEE AHDIEH
No.” Musa canted his mouth to one side. “When we are faced with our darkest fears, inaction is f...
RENEE AHDIEH
The moment I saw him running toward you that morning, I knew you were going to save him, just as he ...
RENEE AHDIEH
The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.
RENEE AHDIEH
For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin ...
RENEE AHDIEH
It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
RENEE AHDIEH
As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH
No. He was not here to wreak revenge.
For revenge was trifling and hollow.
No. He was not ...
RENEE AHDIEH
People fall in and out of love with the rising and setting of the sun. Rather like a boy who loves t...
RENEE AHDIEH
And only those watching very carefully saw the Caliph of Khorasan lean back against the cushions and...
RENEE AHDIEH
I know love is fragile. And loving someone like you is near impossible. Like holding something shatt...
RENEE AHDIEH
When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she ...
RENEE AHDIEH
So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?”
“No. I’m looking ...
RENEE AHDIEH
And he smiled a smile to shame the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH
It’s a fitting punishment for a monster. to want something so much—to hold it in your arms — a...
RENEE AHDIEH
You are not weak. You are not indecisive. You are strong. Fierce. Capable beyond measure.
RENEE AHDIEH
So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?”
“Shazi?” Jalal’s grin widened. “Hone...
RENEE AHDIEH
You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?
RENEE AHDIEH
Shazi,

I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a sourc...
RENEE AHDIEH
I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.
RENEE AHDIEH
Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another s...
RENEE AHDIEH
My soul sees its equal in you.
RENEE AHDIEH
...no matter how damaged or lost you think you are you can find your way back. Keep believing and yo...
JOEY RENEE
Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpe...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
What most people call spontaneous recall usually involves memories that have been denied, not repres...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
The unconscious mind always operates in the present tense, and when a memory is buried in the uncons...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, t...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
Few survivors experience spontaneous recall especially if they have no awareness of the abuse ever h...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?”
“Just one, my child. Just one.”
“I...
RENEE AHDIEH
It didn't occur on our campus. It's not that we're not moving on it. ... We weren't the ones with fi...
RENEE CLARK
There have been a couple movements to get one. But it takes a lot of grass-roots effort to get a bra...
RENEE DONAHUE
It is something for families to do that is affordable. Kids love (puppet shows), and parents love th...
RENEE DONAHUE
This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids ...
RENEE FITZGERALD
I'm thrilled with the way these young ladies stepped on the field and play. They should not hang the...
RENEE HEIDGER
Northwest is an economic engine in the region and critically important to tourism and convention bus...
RENEE MONFORTON
There is no downside to this tax. It's the most effective thing the legislature can do in this year'...
RENEE MARTIN
I love the bathroom. It's one of my favorite rooms.
RENEE TYSON
Easter, at this point, has not affected us. Sometimes during the Routt County Fair when they do the ...
RENEE SORHOLUS
It literally took us two seconds to realize our school was California.
RENEE WRIGHT
The present is our own. The right-this-second, the here-and-now, this moment before the next, is our...
RENEE CARLINO
Will could dance and if I remember correctly, someone told me once to stay away from a man who could...
RENEE CARLINO
Spheres of influence.
LORD G.G. LEVESON-GOWER GRANVILLE
The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's con...
SONYA RENEE TAYLOR
I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There wa...
LISA RENEE JONES
I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling t...
LEANNA RENEE HIEBER
I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone ...
LISA RENEE JONES
I won't sleep
if that's what it takes
to not wake up
as myself
CASEY RENEE KISER
I think it’s the whole ‘bad boy who’s so good but destined to break your heart’ fantasy. Whi...
LISA RENEE JONES
Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There i...
LEANNA RENEE HIEBER
Trust me, dear, with the amount that you read, I guarantee that your eyes will never go bad.
LINDSEY RENEE BACKEN
Daddy is jive talking
and showering the stripper
Mommy is sleepwalking
while changing...
CASEY RENEE KISER
Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could arg...
LEANNA RENEE HIEBER
I'd like to be able to tell myself I'm strong enough to move on... but I decided to be stronger and ...
GRACE RENEE WILLIS