... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.