“Spence, he says as he lifts his brown eyes to meet mine. You still make it hard to breathe. And you, I say, swallowing as I try to rein in my overeager heart, are still the same old charmer you alw...”

“Those ties...those ties are forever, and I never wanted to be connected to any other person so permanently. Forever was always meant for you and me, Spence.”

“I want the strings. I want the ball and fucking chain. I want to be so tied to you that you cant ever slip away from me again.”

“that kid may not carry my DNA, but by God, I dont care. I love that little shit like my own and I want to be his daddy.”

“Tear filled eyes glisten in the firelight. Shes so fucking beautiful that it hurts to look at her, but its an ache I hope to feel for as long as I live, because the pain of losing her again...that ...”

“Hes so fucking unconventionally perfect. I dont know whether I want to kick him in the balls or lick his face.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”