“Well, you didnt think Id just roll over, did you?Actually I was hoping for an on-all-fours sort of thing.”

“You wanted hatchlings.I know. I just didnt want those hatchlings. Personally, I blame your father.Bercelaks eyes grew wide. Excuse me?On a burst of laughter, she exclaimed, Well that came out horri...”

“You two are perfect together. And one day . . . one day your children will change everything.”

“He sneered at his father. Hell live. Im going after her.What? His sister stood up in front of her brother. Fearghus, dont. Shes angry. Very angry. She impaled your father . . . twice. Give her some...”

“Brastias. My friend. Uh-oh, this couldnt be good. Do you lie to me?Uh . . . no.See? Thats a lie!”

“There was even a story passed among the queens court that when freshly hatched, Rhiannon bit her mother on the neck when she tried to cuddle her new daughter. But Rhiannon didnt believe that for on...”

“Say youll marry me when I come back or, before God, I wont go. Ill stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so youll have...”

“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”

“The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“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.”