“Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted.”

“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...”

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

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we cant change.”

“And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.”

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

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Stephens kiss was lost in jest,Robins lost in play,But the kiss in Colins eyesHaunts me night an...”