“You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience. Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiati...”

“You know, just sit in the corner and glare at him the whole time. See if he crumbles. Ive seen your hard-ass face, Tuck, Charlie said. Mostly, you just look constipated. Ford, youd better do the gl...”

“Hopefully not another employee stealing credit cards, Brooke mused. Or any sort of headache-inducing oops moment, like the time one of the restaurant managers called to ask if he could fire a line ...”

“So Im reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but its about Hades and the underworld, and I dont even notice that Paige has come up to my table until she says, Doesnt e...”

“He rocked against her, his body shuddering against hers again and again, until he collapsed on top of her and buried his face in her hair.Brooke felt his heart beating against her chest as they lay...”

“His eyes were dark. Brooke.She knew what he was asking. Yes.Immediately, Cade took her hand and led her quite briskly along the sidewalk.Thank God Im not wearing the red high heels today, she sai...”

“Holly's forgiven you?" "Almost mostly. But she still gives me slack about it when she's sick. I take it as a husbandly badge," he said, puffing out his chest. "Sick? You told me she was fully immor...”

“You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you.”

“Cade thought about this. Let me get this straightyou secretly pretend to like poetry to impress the smart girl in your English class, while shes secretly pretending to like football to impress you....”

“Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And i...”

“Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.""That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at he...”

“Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.”

“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.”