I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to...

He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit...

Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. “This is darling, Gabriel. Don’t you love it? You’re right, I think we need to concentrate on much more feminine articles of...

I know what it’s like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

We have to actually choose a name,” Kane murmured above her head. “We can’t keep calling him ‘baby.’ When he’s fifteen he might resent it.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn’t work that way, does it?

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When...

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I’m never live with him” She raised her head to look at her sisters with haunted eyes. “And...

Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane.”Sebastian Kane Cannon. You’re going to marry me and use my last name,...

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath...

You’re the kind of man my mother warned me about.

It’s all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It’s an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

I wasn’t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue.”Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. “Of course you...

You’re my life, Elle. When we have our children, they’ll be included in that circle and I’m not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible.””So you don’t think three protection...

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn’t even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because...

You can’t be anything but who you are. I wouldn’t love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn’t thinking about survival.

He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as...

When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

Mikhail?…Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you’re doing, and I’ll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why am I...

She didn’t want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but...

The trouble is not really in being alone, it’s being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don’t you think?

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

…but you have to know when you close those doors, you don’t leave anything for the other person.

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She’d let someone do that to her. She’d known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached....

The secret weapon is cucumber.’Solange sat all the way up. ‘Jasmine, cover your ears.’MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing.’Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter.”MY mind is just fine, thank you. It’s...

Sex was a practiced art to him. Each move calculated. His brain always worked while he performed, his body seducing his prey with ease, noting each response of his target. But in one moment, everything...

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments.

It’s your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can’t lose.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order,...

The minute I’m in a little pain … your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

Abbey,” Sarah said, “life is to be lived. If you’re living, you’re going to stumble along the way.””All the time?” Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. “I have such a bad temper...

He felt safe with her. He’d never been safe with another human being, not since he’d been taken as a child from his home. He’d never been able to trust. He could never give that...

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.

Here’s to many more firsts and many more great memories.

Have you ever heard of a condom? Don’t Carpathians have condoms? Because I’m thinking that if you’re all that worried, a condom might be just the thing.” His smile was slow in coming. “I had...

We can do anything you like. Just be with me.

[Kane to Rose] I’ll never forget the way you looked walking toward me. I never thought that I’d have a woman like you in my life. It’s all there etched in my brain. And now,...

I had to work so hard to find myself again, Alexandr.” There was pain in her voice. “I was so lost without you. You left me raw and wounded and trapped in a dark place...