Safe is just another word for scared.

We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.