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.

Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I’d told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.

He was impossibly gorgeous. I had trouble taking it in at times

When I propose, angel, trust me, you’ll know it.