You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer.

It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction … you touch her skin and it’s the best skin you’ve ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she’s interesting even when she’s doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.” Nick did not bother trying to deny it. “I was going to be so much smarter than you,” he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. “I prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a man’s intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.