Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship." I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive Todd." "It would help if you could tell me one thing that's wrong. One flaw. Bad breath? Warts? Some condition that requires anti fungal spray?" "Would chest hair be a flaw?" "Oh, yeah." Todd sounded relieved." I can't stand a chest rug. You can't see the chest cut.

Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.

Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.

The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.