I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.

Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.