You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

You have heard the expression 'love is blind'" "I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)