“I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of th...”

“Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.”

“Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one.”

“She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. Theyre anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, dont chew.Well, I thou...”

“One day, shed find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.”

“Give me a few minutes.You have time. He sat in the grass.Are you just going to sit there and watch me?Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best.Peasant?He shrugged...”

“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.”

“Love and a red rose can't be hid.”

“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”