“My panties were still on but he didnt let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex, making low, growling noises in his throat like a big cat purring with pleasure while it devo...”

“I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and Ive accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. And I love you anyway remember?”

“Every bride is beautiful. Its like newborn babies or puppies. They cant help it.”

“Fuck me, I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madness.”

“Sometimes theres no cure for the crazy. Dale sighed, stroking my hair. I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe thats the cure.”

“I looked at him like a stranger, someone Id never seen before, and he looked at me like Id been lost to him for a thousand years and finally found.”

“Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge finds out- oh, gods, you've been here all night?""Frank!" Annabeth's ears were as red as strawberrie...”

“I looked at him like a stranger, someone Id never seen before, and he looked at me like Id been lost to him for a thousand years and finally found.”

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”

“There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stra...”

“If its reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.”

“Reality is how you look at it”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...”

“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”