“As plain Jane, she had far more to risk than Lady Mystre did. Behind her mask she could be the mistress of his darkest desires, but without it there were consequences to her deception. It was the o...”

“Perhaps the best way for you to ensure my trust is to make love to me as I deserve to be loved. At her command, he lifted her into his arms and circled the bed to set her carefully on the mattress....”

“Do you trust me to be strong enoughstrong enough to love you in the way you need to be loved?”

“Its a duress Ill never regret succumbing to, he murmured as his hands caressed the soft skin of her shoulders. It gave me you. I never thought I could love someone so much that Id be willing to let...”

“Ive told you before, ma chrie, love is not about submission. It is the willingness to give of yourself. That is a great power and gift, if you allow yourself to wield it.”

“I said kiss me again. A sultry smile curved her lips. Would that be such a difficult task to perform?Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.”

“Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.”

“I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.”

“Our life is all about personal choices we make. We choose the life we live.”

“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”