... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.