We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn't see what made us unique enough for someone to really love us.

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

Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.

…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.

He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. “I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I’m with you. Just tell me what I have to do.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

I had never seen hair that purely black. It was glossy and slightly long, the ends drifting over his collar. That sexy length was the crowning touch of bad boy hotness over the successful businessman, like whipped cream topping on a hot fudge brownie sundae. As my mother would say, only rogues and raiders had hair like that." (Eva about Gideon)