Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined