"You're beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped in my wool and filled with me."

"Heya, Arlene. What's shakin'? Cotton greeted.'Don't shift some of this weight, everything, Arlene replied."

"And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical."

"We all fall on hard times, he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. 'It's just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction."

"It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be."

"Never wanna leave my Justice, my home.So I bring her with me, my baby Lonesome.Don't matter, Justice is always there,Always right there, no matter where I go.My baby Lonesome,Makin' it so I'm never missin' home."

"You love me?'Baby, you were made for me."

"They got cream puffs at the bakery but I bet yours will be better, he noted. 'As Americans often put sweetened whipped cream or vanilla pudding between the choux pastry, and we'll be making crA me patisserie, this is indeed a fact. 'What's crA me patisserie? Ethan asked. 'Proof there is a God, I answered."

"It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys."

"There are very few, very fuckin' few people, Kia, who get what's precious in this world. They work their asses off for pure shit and think they'd fight and die to keep it. You don't fight and die for shit. You fight and die for things that matter. You are the first woman I've met outside a life that leads you to understand that shit who gets that. And straight up, baby, you gotta know, I like that a fuckuva lot."

"Exquisite pain. The kind you wanted to feel every day for the rest of your life. It was the pain of finally having something you wanted. Something you'd longed for. Longed for since you had memories. Something life taught you to believe you'd never have. Something, if you lived without it, it left a void in your soul you knew would never be filled. Something, without it, you knew you'd never be whole. It was something you needed. It was as necessary as breath. It was what was required to complete you'."

"Apparently, if you become one of Satan's Minions, as a reward, he makes you immune to cancer, heart and liver disease."

"Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on."

"Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it's worse."

"This is the us you wanted us to be, Gwen."

"I'd had a really bad day and you hurt me.His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, 'I'll probably do it again, Red,because I'm a man and any man can be a dick. But I won't do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I'll have a mind to that."

"I'd eat a picnic in Hades with him."

"You don't have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked very much and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger."

"I realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics.'I don't think she's tied up in knots anymore, Gladie, Norm observed.'She is, dear, just not ones she wants to untie, Gladys remarked."

"Because, no matter how old we get, we always need to believe in fairytales."

"Yeah, you lose this attitude, I can help you work that hurt out.Who was this man? He held onto his tragedy for seventeen fucking years, how could he stand there and tell mehe could help me work through mine?'Really, Joe? Like you helped me work out my grief at losing Tim? I asked sarcastically.'That's not what I was offerin', buddy, but you want it like that I'll give it to you.'You're unbelievable, I snapped.'I'm yours.That socked me in the gut too, so hard it winded me and all I could do was stare up at him.Taking advantage, his face dipped close and his hands curled around both sides of my head.'First fuckin' time you smiled at me in my bed, that's when it happened, he murmured."

"Women like clothes, they like shoes, they like flowers and they like people to look at them and think,'God, she's gorgeous.' The more people who think that, the better it is. The one day in your life where you get all that rolled up into one is your wedding day. And itcomes with jewelry and presents and endswith a vacation where it's practically law that you have to wear fabulous underwear and have lots of sex."

"Mara, his arms gave me a squeeze, 'baby, you've got to live in the now. Not in your head. Not controlled by your fears. You can't live for what might happen five months in the future. You got issues you gotta face today. You gotta deal with them now. You got two kids who count on you and their lives aren't gonna go perfect every day because you weigh every decision you make and tread cautiously. Those options are no longer available to you. You're gonna have to live day to day and make decisions on the fly. And I'm tellin' you I'm here to help. You need it and they need it. Are you honestly gonna say no?"

"When she heard about Mitch, it was Roberta that talked me into making the pizza.'You have to! she'd nearly shrieked. She did this because I'd waxed on perhaps a little too enthusiastically about Mitch's looks, his warm smile and his neighborly behavior.I shook my head. 'I don't know. He freaks me out.'Yeah, I get that. Johnny Depp came in and fixed my faucet then told me he wanted to try my pizza that would freak me out too. But I'd still make him my freaking pizza."

"I'm thinking, handsome, it might be good to end the biker lesson now seeing as this particular one might piss me off. 'Not surprised, babe, but we had a good run. 'Pardon? 'Took you to work, brought you to my house, you cooked, we ate, we watched TV, all good. No fights. No backtalk. All day. But all good things come to an end."

"He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he landed."

"Tex's head snapped in my direction.Fuckin' A, woman, you've never had a s'more? he boomedI shook my head.Christ, everyone's gotta have a s'more before they die. Fuck that shit, I'll build a fire in my backyard tonight and I'll stop by Kumar's on the way home to get the stuff. Everyone can come by."

"May feel like you're falling', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you."

"However, at fourteen years old, she didn't understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life."

"Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone."

"Darlin', the last time I walked into a mall was two presidents ago. I stared at him in shock. Then I asked, 'Is that even possible? 'I got a dick and I was single so, yeah, it's possible."

"We girls, we're tough, darling. Soft on the outside but, deep down, we're tough."

"Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?"

"Apparently Super Max was pretty content with taking care of half the town, such was his wonderfulness."

"You should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think."

"That top,' he said when he dipped his face close, and I realized his voice sounded funny. It was intense but it was also hoarse like when we were fooling around and I understood why when he again spoke. 'Tonight, when I fuck you, I want you naked. Later, I want you ridin' my cock wearin' nothin' but that fuckin' top."

"I'm with him because when I'm with him, I'm free to be me. I'm with him because he's hot. I'm with him because he lets me blather, since I'm prone to blathering, and he lets me rant when I have a bad day. I'm with him because when I rant, he makes me feel better and he does this effortlessly. I'm with him because I live for the times when I'm on the back of his bike and we're riding together, not even talking, just being free."

"He put the knuckles of his fist to the table, leaned toward Niles and spoke quietly, cuttingly, in his rough, gravelly voice.'Fucked her last night, man, and this morning. Five times. Five. It was like she hadn't been touched in a decade. So fuckin' sweet. Damn, he taunted, his eyes locked on Niles. 'You've had her, you gotta know, not enough money in the world's worth that."

"Belonging to me doesn't mean I'll make you do anything, it just means I consider you mine for as long as this lasts. It means I protect you, it means I take care of you. For another man, it might mean something different. Don't confuse me with another man."

"My gaze moved to Vance. He was looking up at me and I could read nothing in his eyes.'Another pop?' I asked.He shook his head but kept watching me. I looked at the floor and started from the room.I had to pass Vance's chair to get to the kitchen. As I did, I slowed and as if it had a mind of it's own, my hand came out and I ran the backs of my finger's along Vance's jaw."

"Lonely's a different kind of pain, it doesn't hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it 'cause I reckoned it was one or the other."

"I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm."

"If you think Atticus Finch went home at night and slept easy because he knew he was doing the right thing, you're wrong....Because even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. Because every woman and man, no matter their color or their religion, is entitled to a good defense. And because Jem and Scout would grow up to be like their father, spreading his wisdom, understanding his compassion and sharing his strength which are the only, the only weapons we have against injustice."

"Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie."

"I'm out of health potions. Retreat! Retreat! Give me some of your health potions! I screamed. 'I don't have any potions. Run, bitch, run, Brody squealed. The red ran out on my health and my assassin was transported, stripped of everything we'd earned, back to the starting camp. 'I'm dead! Fuck, they killed me!"

"My eyes went to him. 'Your rule, honey. I can go put panties on.' His eyes came to me. 'You do, I get the strap."

"You sleep okay, sweetie? 'Miss my teddy, Billie replied. Personally, I thought Detective Mitch Lawson was far superior to a tiny pink teddy bear but I wasn't six years old."

"The heart sometimes doesn't care about limits."

"I found it impossible with his mouth so close to me, his lips being so fantastic and my eyes dropped to them again.They were fine.I licked my lips.'Ava.My eyes drifted back to his and I was in a Luke Lip Fog. 'Yeah?'You lick your lips while looking at my mouth one more time, you'll find that pretty pink tongue of yours in my mouth."

"It's my experience that a weakness understood is no weakness. If you know you have it, even if you can't control it, you can make allowances for it. It is those who ignore or don't understand their weaknesses who are wasted by them."