I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.