I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.