No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a different man." His green eyes were breathtaking in their intensity. His thumb brushed her bottom lip. "Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that." "Do you have some better suggestion?" "Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?

Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.

This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake.” She smiled. “Lancelot was a knight. You’re a viscount. The bar is higher.

After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.