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

One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

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

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.