Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You’re so gorgeous. You’re so beautiful.
It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.
I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I’d never take anything for granted again.
Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.
But Roarke doesn’t feel weird about it. He’s full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did – do. It was easier when they didn’t work, but it’s better when they do. You know?
Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.
I’d rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.
It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life.
I said, you’re the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.
Why don’t you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.
I’ve wanted to be with you when I didn’t have the right to.
Couples take care of each other, Clare, that’s what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.
It’s about us. It’s about trust.
That’s possible to likely. We’re involved, you and me. I’m telling you what I’m going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.
I hope that’s true, because I figured out why I’d never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.
I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.
Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.
You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love’s supposed to be scary. Because if there’s no fear, there’s no thrill.