Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.

His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day.

You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.

How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.