“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.”

“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”

“I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

“Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.”

“Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet.""You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed.He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship ritua...”

“You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”