“You love me, he said. Thats all I need to know. You always say the right thing, Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but ...”

“Im going to carry you now, he told her, so we can move even faster. Im not asking you, Im telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.”

“Savannah, Ive been talking my ass off for more than an hour now, telling you shit no ones ever heard anything about, hoping that Ill say something, Jesus God, anything that will convince you to hav...”

“Do you think, she said, instead of having sex, we could make love?Id love that, Ken whispered.”

“If you want, I can carry you Im fine, she said shortly. Lets go.Hed said that wrong. He should have said, I want to carry you.”

“My favorite color is you.”

“Maybe having great sex just made a werewolfs nose work better”

“...She remembered why he'd caught her eye the first time she'd seen him, at Ivy and Landon's wedding. He was absolutely gorgeous. Tall, with broad shoulders and well-muscled arms, he had dark-blond...”

“What man didn't enjoy a beautiful woman curled up in his lap, even if she did treat him like a scratching post every time she woke up?”

“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.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”