“If I looked like him, Tara said. Id want to have sex with myself. All the time.”

“Sorry, he said. Let me drop the belt-"No. She held on when he would have pulled away. Dont. I like it. Again, he lifted her face, and he smiled. The tool belt turns you on. No. She closed her eyes ...”

“Whos there?The scratcher of your itch, he said.She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. Was that supposed to be romantic?”

“Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.”

“I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger”

“Ben was in his truck, window down, idling at the curb, dark lenses hiding his eyes from her, looking effortlessly big and badass.The way she wished she felt.”

“Wars fought over a face like this, he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. A man would work himself into the ground for i...”

“And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.”

“Ben was in his truck, window down, idling at the curb, dark lenses hiding his eyes from her, looking effortlessly big and badass.The way she wished she felt.”

“Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.”

“Listen, I'm bossy. I can't help it. It's who I am and what I do. I'm pushy and I like to take over. But I'm going to work really hard not to do so much and your going to try and accept me the way I...”

“Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so very many of them.”

“You're a virgin. You have no idea what you're asking for.""Then you will have to teach me.""Not like this. Not on a horse in the middle of nowhere.”

“Women enjoy sex as much as men...if they were totally satisfied in sexual encounters, they would welcome them.”

“By the time your training is complete, you'll come on command my defiant queen.”