Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.

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

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word.

You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy

I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.