“I dont know. Youll have to ask him yourself.She sat up enough to look him in the eye. I am not talking toyouryourMighty throbbing manhood?Briec.That which brings you much delirious pleasure?Briec.T...”

“Shed left him.Without a word. Without a thought. Shed left him and now he hadfeelings.For that alone, hed never forgive her.”

“Now if you gentlemen, she looked at Briec, and whateveryou are, will excuse me.”

“Oh, gods. Not the flying!I heard you mounted my sister well enough.I want you never to make that statement again.”

“How do you live with yourself, Lord Arrogant? Very easily, Lady Difficult. I find myself quitecharming.”

“You ask me if you can eat dinner in your room, but you dontask me if you can torture ibhear to take you flying?Truly perplexed, Izzy asked softly, Why would I ask you that?”

“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.”

“This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' ...”

“Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain.”

“Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.”

“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.”