He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored

Och, Dani my darling, you're not giving me a single reason to wait for you to grow up. You're giving me a thousand reasons not to." It's Christian! I'm so glad it's him, not one of the other princes! I turn around in his arms and tip my head back. "Hi, Christian!" I beam at him. He's hotter than the other princes. I'm glad I got him. I'll take the others, too, but I want him first. "I want to grow up. Now. Hurry.

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things.

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 me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.