“What if I told you that you occupy my every waking thought? That I dream about you at night? And that you feature in my darkest, dirtiest dreams? What then?”

“I whisper, What do I need?Release. That one word scrapes across my nerves and lights me on fire. His deep voice dances on the air, murmuring hotly, You need someone who will take all of your though...”

“I like to be in charge. I like to guide my bedmate, push her to her limits, expand her horizons. My pleasure comes from the power she gives me to decide how to bring her pleasure. My pleasure comes...”

“Last night he made it very clear that he wants me.And, god help me, I want him too.”

“I want to make you feel things youve never felt, push you in ways you never knew existed, expand your horizons in ways you never dreamt needed expandingMe too. I want to show you that pleasure can ...”

“Hes everything I could want but never dreamed I could have.”

“..."sometimes people fit together like theyre meant to be, and when youve had that, its impossible to settle for something less. Again, Tori draws my gaze. I cant seem to look away.”

“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.”

“...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.”

“Yes, look at him," Marisol said. "Sleeping in a hammock, waking before the sunrise to take care of poor people. He is so terrible.”

“Shed pay good money for an up-close-and-personal tour of the tattoos that made him look like a badass biker.”