“Lips that have tasted the salt of tears always give the sweetest kiss.”

“Just remember that people who are known for their looks are rarely known for anything else.”

“It is more than love, barely less than madness. Its never close enough.”

“I love you to the moon and bed.”

“Im jealous of the cherries that have been in your mouth, he said, that they get to make your lips so red. He kissed her softly, teasing her tongue with his, a lustful wet caress, and Austen was sus...”

“When she remembered a summer it would be this one. When she remembered love it would be his.”

“The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last”

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

“When a character comes to life, its like meeting a new friend for the first time.”

“But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, couldve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe shed ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight sho...”

“Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?"...That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it ove...”

“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can j...”

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table...”

“Hes dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if hed be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”