“Tristan looked at me with pleading eyes, as though he could forget for one moment how I was programmed to respond to himhow even now upon hearing his confession, I wanted nothing more than to suck ...”

“Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no past. I loved you then and I love you now.”

“Ive got something for you, he crooned, reaching down and putting my wedding band back on my finger. The huge diamond ring sparkled in a spotlight against the familiar darknessthe darkness of the be...”

“I gotta hand it to ya, Tristan. You may be a world-class fuckup with what you done to Lisa, but you got taste, man. You got good taste.”

“You think all I can do is frog legs? I got Legs on my mind, alright, but yours. Ill do whatever it takes the save the ass on top of em and everything else, you hear me?”

“Well, fella, as much as Id like to stick something up your ass, it aint gonna be my finger or anything else on my bodysorry to disappoint.”

“Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.”

“Listen, I'm bossy. I can't help it. It's who I am and what I do. I'm pushy and I like to take over. But I'm going to work really hard not to do so much and your going to try and accept me the way I...”

“Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so very many of them.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”