“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?”

“Okay, first of all, I didnt sleep with you to make amends. I slept with you because I wanted to.He still didnt say anything, and she pointed at him again. And you know what? It was your own damn fa...”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”