Are we turning back? Because if you’re just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I’m desensitized, trust me—that ship has sailed.

Alice, winning means manipulation. It means taking people—people who may have helped you in the past, even people you care about—and using them without hesitation or regret. It means making decisions that would be viewed...

Did you think your boyfriend was going to stick around and watch you do THAT? If we weren’t related, I would’ve left too. Actually…is it already too late for me to leave?

Australians are descended from a boatload of English convicts, right? So two hundred years in isolation at the bottom of the planet is plenty of time for the language to evolve into some sort of...

I can’t give up on anyone either, even someone who’s burned every bridge like Drake Schultz. Getting him to deal with his insecurities and whatever it is he’s trying to hide. It’s this never-ending cycle...

Seeing you with that guy tonight made me nuts, because every bone in my body says you’re mine.

I think it’s cool that you care about your heritage, but yet you don’t conform. Promise me that no matter what happens, you’ll never lose that feisty, impulsive side of you.

Marion’s town slogan was “Where Main Street Meets Mountain.” That was one of the reasons she’d loved the town, with the nearby woods, its colorful shops, and the feeling that time hadn’t touched it the...

You’re it for me, Katie. You’re my world now.

Bet you’ve never had a bear down your pants before. Though I’m kind of a bear in bed. (Rick from Back to Basics)

I’ve noticed you only speak ghetto half of the time.” – Stephanie”I’m multi-lingual,” Rancher said.I followed him to the door, feeling jealous, wishing I knew a second language.

Hey, you’re the one who can’t stand me being so close to you.

So let me get this straight. You have no hobbies. You don’t care what this woman looks like as long as she can “doll herself up” and entertain herself and pop out a few babies...

You don’t think he saw us, do you?

He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster

If that’s code for ‘I want to fuck you until I can’t walk straight’, then I kind of hate you, too.

It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every other way.

I want to give you everything. I want you to know me, all of me. So know that I’ll try. It’s weird to bare my deepest thoughts to anyone, but I’m ready to with you.

We’re all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It’s never too late, we’re never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.

Holy shit, he was harder that a rod of steel, and as his leg ground out a torturous rhythm between my thighs, I realized I was hotter than spring in Seattle.This was not a dream,...

I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn’s full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body…her smoking body bared only for me.

Maybe I shouldn’t trust him after all, just like he doesn’t seem to trust me fully. Shit, is it always so hard to get close to someone?

Something…normal,” he finally said.

He parked the car, pressed the button for the roof to fold back, and undid his seat belt. “It’s an emergency.”Goldilocks giggled. She unfastened her belt and hopped onto her knees. “Yes, I can see”...

His body felt so good that she didn’t care if she ever came up for air. She wanted this kiss to last forever.

Her pulse pounded in her ears. She didn’t need to turn around to know he was standing behind her. Most likely with a smirk at catching her impromptu belly dance.

Big surprise, I put you to sleep. Don’t feel bad. It happens all the time.

She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God’s gift to her, and she wouldn’t trade him for the world.

Rory’s big labradoodle made a snap judgement that Frankie was everything her life had been missing up until now. She flung herself into the girl’s arms, wiggling and whining, a shaggy mass of chocolate-colored enthusiasm.”Mistral...

Keisha said… I’m going to ride you so hard you might regret seeking shelter here.Gabe replied… IF you don’t, I’m gonna need to go back out and throw myself into a snowbank just to cool...

Don’t compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

Lea was on the floor of a stall hugging a toilet. When she heard the door close, she lifted her head and gave me a half smile of embarrassment.’Gracie, I’ve been chemically inconvenienced and I...

Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you’re thinking. Especially when you smile at me like that. ~ Oliver Sand

Well, you played me, Rabbit. You played me, and it worked, and I’m not the kind of person to make the same mistake twice. Your whole life is a game, but you know what? I...

You know what they say, Queenie: ALWAYS bet like you have a pair.

Okay, so English settlers brought rabbits with them to Australia to breed for food and stuff, right? But they escaped and basically started destroying the country, eating the vegetation, that kind of thing. So by...

The car doesn’t so much drive as float above the road, like we’re making our way to Sydney in a hovercraft.

I wanna explore your body. I wanna kiss my way up and down it all night long.

Before she could ponder what on earth he meant or come up with a proper response, he took their charade a step further.He kissed her.

I couldn’t imagine choosing shopping when sex was an option.

In all fairness, darlin’, I should probably warn you that this ain’t my first rodeo.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is ‘good-bye sucker.

Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? – Dan Landry

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance; Annie Wright’s stroke.

Mags, I’m yours. You have nothing to worry about.

White undershirt. Dark-framed glasses. Sneak peeks at black boxers. Really? How much more was a girl supposed to be able to take before she either spontaneously combusted or found a shower with a removable showerhead?

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, ” Because I like your face.

She came out of nowhere like a two-by-four against the skull, knocking all common sense out of him and turning him into a walking woody.

I was crying on the back-porch swing. You came out with a corsage of fresh forget-me-nots and roses, and a handkerchief. You told me any guy worth my time would always come to me with...

I have to say that you’re the last person I’d have expected would have a seventeen-year-old daughter. You’re so…” Alice stopped, suddenly looking guilty.”Dashing?” Gunner supplied. “Debonair?””A bit of a dawg, actually.