Cheryl Drake Harris

“I instinctively knew that he was dangerous, in the way that intensely alive people sometimes are.”

“I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.”

“Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.”

“I wanted blood to signify life, not death.”