“Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.”

“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”

“Its impossible, he snapped. Why? Because Im Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I cant be celibate. Everyone knows that.”

“Ah, Evie, she heard him say softly, I must have a heart, after allbecause right now it aches like the devil.Only your heart? she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.He lowered her to the bed, his e...”

“Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincents heart. He says a girl like you would appeal tohmm, how did he put it?I cant remember the exact words, but...”

“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“I know that the whole pointthe only pointis tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”

“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”