“But Neve, you cant start a book and leave it halfway through, hed said implacably. Its almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.”

“But really it says everything thats wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasnt even written by one of those football...”

“It wasn't a perfect body but it was the body she deserved. Not just from every bar of chocolate or bag of crisps or laden plate of food that she'd eaten. This body was also testament to all the hou...”

“When I saw you on the stairs before, Id forgotten how beautiful you are, he whispered against her skin.Spotty, not beautiful, she corrected gently, running her finger along his crooked nose. Now yo...”

“Id think about you and how I didnt want us to end. Its complicatedMax still held her, his thumbs stroking the spot on her wrists where her pulse was thundering away. Uncomplicate it then. Did you m...”

“I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.”

“No. Ye loved him. I canna hold it against either of you that ye mourn him. And it gives me some comfort to know ..." He hesitated, and I reached up to smooth the rumpled hair off his face."To know ...”

“In his arms Ive finally found the place Ive been looking for, where fear cant touch me, where memories cant reach, where the past is forgotten and the present is enough. Where the present is, in fa...”

“Our relationship with the world can only be better when we know ourselves well!”

“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.”