“Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm, you were full of o...”

“Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone.”

“Gentlemen, the king called out, and ladies, First Meal is getting cold. Which was the cue for everyone to head back to the dining room and actually eat what had been only studiously ignored up unti...”

“And for all he had learned to bandage himself up on the outside, the wound remained just as bad and deep as the moment it had been made - when it became obvious that the one male he wanted above al...”

“I would do anything for you. Anything."With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.Actions ...”

“Z: "You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck."Phury: "That was you?"Z:"You think it was Santa Claus or some shit?”

“Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone.”

“Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!”

“I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”

“I don't switch much, don't really want many people to fuck me, because there's a whole code, unwritten but no less rigid than if it were chiseled in stone, about how Tops Must be, how Butches Must ...”

“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.”