“The fact isIm in love with you, and I have been for some time.”

“A girl can still admire, cant she? Even those who cant afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasnt for me didnt mean I couldnt covet the merchandise.”

“He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He be...”

“A quiet but indomitable voice behind me said, I believe this is my dance. It was him. I could feel his presence. The warmth of him seeped into my back, and I quivered all over like spring leaves in...”

“We looked at each other for a minute, not saying anything, but I could feel the air between us shift. It became thick, sultry, and tangiblelike when the air changes right before a storm. I could fe...”

“His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and la...”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”