“Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on."Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.”

“Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.”

“I don't need a mate, she muttered, staring up at the bright circle of the early autumn moon. But can't you send me a nice, sexy, strongmale to dance with? Pretty please? She hadn't had a lover for ...”

“I have something for you.Yeah? What? Is it shiny?They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. So, Riley asked, what have you got for me? Taking his hand, she pl...”

“Mercy laughed. You have to excuse themboys suffer from an incurable disability. What? Testosterone.”

“You trying to make me crazy? Everyone needs a hobby.”

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”

“Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.”

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up...”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”