Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.