“Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane? Barrons asked, watching me carefully.I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. It was like being owned.Some women like that.Not me.Perhaps it depends ...”

“I dont know where dreams come from. Sometimes I wonder if theyre genetic memories, or messages from something divine. Warnings perhaps. Maybe we do come with an instruction booklet but were too den...”

“His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.”

“I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugline...”

“It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.”

“I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to ...”

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Stephens kiss was lost in jest,Robins lost in play,But the kiss in Colins eyesHaunts me night an...”

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”