“As plain Jane, she had far more to risk than Lady Mystre did. Behind her mask she could be the mistress of his darkest desires, but without it there were consequences to her deception. It was the o...”

“Perhaps the best way for you to ensure my trust is to make love to me as I deserve to be loved. At her command, he lifted her into his arms and circled the bed to set her carefully on the mattress....”

“Do you trust me to be strong enoughstrong enough to love you in the way you need to be loved?”

“Its a duress Ill never regret succumbing to, he murmured as his hands caressed the soft skin of her shoulders. It gave me you. I never thought I could love someone so much that Id be willing to let...”

“Ive told you before, ma chrie, love is not about submission. It is the willingness to give of yourself. That is a great power and gift, if you allow yourself to wield it.”

“I said kiss me again. A sultry smile curved her lips. Would that be such a difficult task to perform?Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.”

“Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.”

“I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.”

“Our life is all about personal choices we make. We choose the life we live.”

“Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.”

“Not everyone stays forever. You have to learn to let go.”

“My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.”

“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is mean...”

“Michael, some people are just confused about their sexuality, trying to come to terms with it. There are others who are bisexual too; it doesnt mean she was trying to deceive you. She must have jus...”

“Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and littl...”