Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you." "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty." "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed.

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost." James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.

Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine." -Simon to Daphne