Dear Lord,” she said in a strangled whisper. “I can bear it for a while...but please don't let it hurt forever.

One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

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

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

Dane was shaking his head firmly. "Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies." I gave him a dark look. "What if it were a baby polar bear or a baby Galapagos penguin? I bet you'd want it then." "I'd make an exception for endangered species," he allowed. "This baby is endangered. It's with my mother.

What are you going to call the place?" "I haven't decided yet. Carrington wants to call it Clippety-Do-Da or Hairway to Heaven . . . but I told her we have to be a little bit classier." "Julius Scissors," I suggested. "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow," Jack joined in. Liberty covered her ears. "I'll go out of business in the first week.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.