“I love you. Youre mine. Ill kill any bastard who tries to take you from me.”

“Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.”

“Let me rephrase. He took a seething step toward me. When it comes to you I dont like to share.”

“Asshole. Just for that, I expect you to wrap that dirty mouth of yours around my cock tonight. He narrowed his eyes on me.I couldnt believe hed just said that to me in a fancy restaurant where anyo...”

“Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn't mean it wasn't scary, or that I wasn't still afraid, but now I knew that as l...”

“I was washing the dishes and the sneaky bastard crept up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. And kissed me. Right here. I pointed angrily to my neck. Can I not have him committed or som...”

“A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both.”

“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.”

“Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”