"Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine."

"But you will trust me again, Annabelle. You will want me again, and we will be together. I will behave. You'll see."

"That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after."

"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."

"My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them."

"The boy I was craved Kat. The man I am craves Milla."