“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”

“I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."~ Hardy Cates”

“A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.”

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”

“You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the gate. She smells of the sea. She smells of rockpools when I was a child. She keeps a starfish in t...”

“You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.”