“You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience. Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiati...”

“Hopefully not another employee stealing credit cards, Brooke mused. Or any sort of headache-inducing oops moment, like the time one of the restaurant managers called to ask if he could fire a line ...”

“So Im reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but its about Hades and the underworld, and I dont even notice that Paige has come up to my table until she says, Doesnt e...”

“He rocked against her, his body shuddering against hers again and again, until he collapsed on top of her and buried his face in her hair.Brooke felt his heart beating against her chest as they lay...”

“His eyes were dark. Brooke.She knew what he was asking. Yes.Immediately, Cade took her hand and led her quite briskly along the sidewalk.Thank God Im not wearing the red high heels today, she sai...”

“Her eyes widened as he guided her backward until she was trapped against the bed. He turned her around so that she faced it.You remember when we met, how you told me off in your office? Ever since ...”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“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.”