“You sleep okay, sweetie? Miss my teddy, Billie replied. Personally, I thought Detective Mitch Lawson was far superior to a tiny pink teddy bear but I wasnt six years old.”

“The man who gets Mara gets you and Billie. Im that man. What you gotta get is, while fallin in love with Mara, I fell in love with you and your sister. Straight up, Bud, no lie. The feelings I feel...”

“Mara, his arms gave me a squeeze, baby, youve got to live in the now. Not in your head. Not controlled by your fears. You cant live for what might happen five months in the future. You got issues y...”

“Id once had a long-term relationship with a Five Point Five that got nowhere near living together. This was because I was a Two Point Five, he was a Five Point Five and he wanted a Nine Point Five....”

“Mitch---""All right, baby, I'll shut you up."Then he did, his head slanting and his lips taking mine in a repeat performance of the open-mouthed, knock my socks off, rock my world, best kiss in the...”

“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.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”