Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Compromise is an imperfect act.

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.