I know I’m a bad bargain. But I’m begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with...

They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

What kind of wedding would you like?” he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply.”The kind that turns you into my husband.” She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers....

She stared into the tepid milky liquid and groped for words, the right words to convince Zachary to forgive and trust her once more. It seemed there would be no graceful way to address the...

And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned...

Catherine,” she exclaimed, embracing her, then standing back to view her with concern. “Why are you here? Is something wrong? Is everyone well?” “Your family is quite well,” Catherine said hastily. “But there was…a situation....

Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. “Looks great.” “I look like a geek,” Lucy said. “I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra.””My dream date.

I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses…the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I...

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

You could do with a bit of spoiling.

In defense of geeks,” Justine said, “they’re great in bed. They fantasize a lot, so they’re really creative. And they love to play with gadgets.

It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them… not as if they had met before… but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had...

Yes, but you need to learn your maths.””I don’t need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I’m sure I’ll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

You seem to think you have a choice,” Cam said. “But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. “Aline,” he whispered, “Do you know what hell is?””Yes.” Her eyes overflowed. “Trying to exist with your...

Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to...

Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.

Darling love… you are.

Friends are the support bras of life. We don’t let each other down.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

Derek’s breath touched Sara’s throat in unsteady urges. “Sometimes,” he whispered, “I’m so close to you … and I’m still not close enough. I want to share your breath … every beat of your heart.”He...

I know how you feel about gears and mechanisms.

I’m not the marrying kind -“St. Vincent snorted. “No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

I’ve never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one’s done it yet.

Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no.” -Liberty Jones

Who are you?””For you, Honey…I’m trouble.

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of...

The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough...

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can’t afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

I hate you for all the years I ‘ll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from...

There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.

Clinging to him desperately, Sara kept her mouth at his ear. “Listen to me.” All she could do was play her last card. Her voice trembled with emotion. “You can’t change the truth. You can...

Or a thousand, if I must. Remember that, Nikki. I’ll be waiting for you to come to me.

It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep…a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its...

if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you’ve loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you’ve slept in her bed.

Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes from myself . . . keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth.” – St. Vincent

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and...

What do you think they were doing? Playing a few hands of Find-the-Lady?

One never knows what fate has in store.”Turning toward Rohan, Amelia discovered he was glancing over her in a slow inventory that spurred her heart into a faster beat. “I don’t believe in fate,” she...

So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant.”well…yes, but I’d never date the UPS guy. Those brown shorts are just not a turn-on...

If I cause a collapse when I try to get off, I’d like you to be out of harm’s way first.” They both felt the ground shift beneath them. “My lord,” Catherine asked, her eyes...

Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.

I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like...