“You keep looking at me like that and we won't make it through dinner. I'll take you right there on that counter. No doubt you'd taste better.”

“Say yes. Open your eyes, see that it's me, and say yes.”

“I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze.”

“I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.”

“I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.”

“I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already.”

“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”

“I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.”

“Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.”

“Marc had grown up, gotten away from the partying lifestyle that made him feel as if his mere presence was a gift to those around him and knew himself for what he'd truly been back then. A fool. Hop...”

“Alas! I thought I had only a friendship for you, but the grief I now feel convinces me, that I cannot live without you.”

“There. Let the gods of friendship and common sense strike him dead.”

“Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.”