I’d wait forever for you, as long as you’re mine.

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

I'm an animal with you," he murmured. "I want to mark you. I want to possess you so completely there's no separation between us.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?

I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213