“Beauty like hers had no place in his life.”

“Go get dirty, baby girl. And I mean the naked kind.”

“I dont just want you to come. I want you to come undone”

“An hour in her presence, and he was ready to hit his knees, submit to her every whim.”

“Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didnt mean they should.”

“Lucifer was engraving Nates name on a cage right now.”

“It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.”

“Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came before us. The best among us will learn from the mistakes of the past, w...”

“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies ...”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”

“Maybe having great sex just made a werewolfs nose work better”

“...She remembered why he'd caught her eye the first time she'd seen him, at Ivy and Landon's wedding. He was absolutely gorgeous. Tall, with broad shoulders and well-muscled arms, he had dark-blond...”

“What man didn't enjoy a beautiful woman curled up in his lap, even if she did treat him like a scratching post every time she woke up?”