You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name....
Very well, Beatrix said reluctantly. But I warn you, they may be resistant to the match.I’m resistant to the match, Christopher informed her. At least we’ll have that in common.
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure. You have to leave, Sara ... because I want to hold you like this until your ski...
I’m fairly certain, Captain, that the more you discover about me, the more you will dislike me. Therefore, let’s cut to the chase and acknowledge that we don’t like each other. Then we won’t have to b...
I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It’s all come down to the hope of being with you..
I'm not the marrying kind -St. Vincent snorted. No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t...
I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
I know many scientific facts about the human heart- not the least of which is that it's far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.
I had learned this lesson so many timesbefore. It was the great inner truth thatdidn't require the support of logic. Everytime I loved, I lost, and I was diminished.I wondered how much of me would be...
He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Ot...
Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.
Derek's breath touched Sara's throat in unsteady urges. Sometimes, he whispered, I'm so close to you ... and I'm still not close enough. I want to share your breath ... every beat of your heart.He cra...
You'll be my wife, he said inexorably.You want to own me! she accused, trying to crawl away from him.Yes. He flung her down on the bed and flattened his weight on her. As he spoke, his hot breath fann...
You think I'd cheat on you? I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster.With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.
With all due respect, Christopher muttered, this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man.That's what I said about my wife, Leo remarked...
Where are we going? Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist.To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.
The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings bec...
Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.
Love me? Madeline asked with a faint smile. It used to be love. He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. Now there's no word for it. You once told me that you thought love was a weakness. I was wr...