“You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience. Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiati...”

“You know, just sit in the corner and glare at him the whole time. See if he crumbles. Ive seen your hard-ass face, Tuck, Charlie said. Mostly, you just look constipated. Ford, youd better do the gl...”

“Hopefully not another employee stealing credit cards, Brooke mused. Or any sort of headache-inducing oops moment, like the time one of the restaurant managers called to ask if he could fire a line ...”

“So Im reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but its about Hades and the underworld, and I dont even notice that Paige has come up to my table until she says, Doesnt e...”

“He rocked against her, his body shuddering against hers again and again, until he collapsed on top of her and buried his face in her hair.Brooke felt his heart beating against her chest as they lay...”

“His eyes were dark. Brooke.She knew what he was asking. Yes.Immediately, Cade took her hand and led her quite briskly along the sidewalk.Thank God Im not wearing the red high heels today, she sai...”

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judg...”

“you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.”

“For I amor I wasone of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People...”

“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.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”