Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.

He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.