The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover’s tears.

Love spells are nothing but wives’ tales. You can’t play magic inside the heart, for it’s more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love...

Niall: We’re tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Jake eyed his brother. “I never forget. All data is stored in my memory banks. And one day, candy pig, you will pay.””You ‘re such a geek.””Thesbo.””That’s Jack’s latest insult.”Seth gestured with his wine-glass. “A...

Men didn’t respect beauty…they used it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

People in hell want snowcones.

Why do we go to all this trouble’ Parker asked. ‘Men don’t notice anyway.”Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move....

That woman doesn’t have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

You know what she’s made of.””Yeah, good stock, good breeding, a hard head and a hunger to win.” She flashed him a smile as they approached the kitchen door. “I’ve been told that describes me....

Abby: “You were great. I don’t know what I’d have done without you.”Dylan: “You’d have done fine. That’s one of the most intimidating things about you.” Abby: “Intimidating? Me?”Dylan: “It isn’t easy for a man...

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

God, I love men.” She got up from the desk, walked to him, cupped his face in her hands andgave him a smacking kiss on the mouth. “You’re just so cute.”One hard tug on her...

He wanted to be a poet,’ someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. ‘Said he’d only lacked the words to be one.

Do you think, Sam, that even if it were only my own heart at risk, I could pour it into your hands again?””Then just take mine. I’m not doing anything else with it.

I can’t believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

Men are pigs.

Happily ever after?” “If justice doesn’t triumph and love doesn’t make the circle in entertainment fiction, what’s the point? Real life sucks too often.

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.

I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don’t want to go, or one you’re not ready for. People say they know what’s best for you. Maybe sometimes it’s true. But...

Hey, handsome.

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who’s about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she’s just nuked in the microwave. Every woman...

You’re going to need this,” she said, and pulled out a condom.”At some point, we’re also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher.””Promises, promises.

Take a few minutes.””No. He’s already had more of my time than he was entitled to.”Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

David.””Nobody home but you and me,” he said, nibbling at her jaw, her throat, her mouth as he guidedher out of the kitchen. “You know what I was thinking the other day?””No.” How could she?...

it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last.” -adrianne”It should have also taught you that sometimes love has...

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just...

You have any complaints or comments, you direct them to me. If you call and harass Granddadagain, I’ll do whatever I can, legally, to revoke that trust fund you’ve been living off of for the...

I was into third guesses with Theo and Maddy. Anyway, that’s one of the reasons I opted to buythe van and drive cross-country instead of dumping us all in a plane. It gave us some...

No. This would be better as a team.” She dragged her top drawer open, rooted out her aspirin. “Ishould have fired her weeks ago. You were right about that. I was wrong.””I need to write...

I’m going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.

Compromise isn’t so painful if you’re the one setting the terms.

Oh, God. God, isn’t that perfect? He’s Dad. He’s Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don’t even know you’ve had your shields hacked down until you’re defenseless. It’s...