Romance

"Tom, how many children do you think I have to have before I figure out you get them by having sex"Of course there would be protection," he offered."Tons of it."

"Too long, much too long."

"Maybe we could, um, go sit in the truck" he said, but even as he said it, it sounded so dumb. And not exactly the way he wanted her to remember a marriage proposal."

"Who doesn't want a Bad Boy? Hmm... I prefer to let them bake for a while. Those misbehaving boys will rise to irresistible, dominant, and controlling men. When cooked at the right temperature they'll still taste disobedient but with the right amount of heat, they'll become succulent and tantalizing. The men in my recipes will never leave you feeling hungry. They will fulfill even the most insatiable appetites."

"If a person who is content with his life meets someone who makes everything just a little bit more challenging, who both fits and doesn't fit into his life and his routine, to quote Guy Fieri, it is On Like Donkey Kong: swing the rope, jump the barrel, and save the princess."

"I am not sleeping with you."We could probably manage it, though. Without getting too involved."No," she said."But why? I mean, if we're trusted friends? And it doesn't interfere with our responsibilities"Did that line ever actually work for you"I can't remember. But it probably did-it's brilliant."

"I like the way you kiss-a couple of test kisses, then a huge kiss."

"Gay sex, one. Straight sex, zero"

"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her. Dragging him with her!"

"I know there's a word called "miracle". But I don't know if there's a meaning inside the word, "miracle"

"He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where no one could see his pain and his shame. Unconsciously, he reached up and fisted the little black pearl in his fingers, searching for words, praying to the Almighty for the words that would let him have her. But they would not come. They were not needed, when the truth was in his eyes."

"She accepted it uncertainly. “This will help?” Without waiting for an answer, with that unsettling trust of hers, she popped open the lid and dug in her finger, smearing the slick substance on and around her mouth. Going outside of the lines, as he deduced she did with most everything in her life. When she was done, she looked absolutely ridiculous. Caine barely resisted smiling at her. “It will help immensely."

"Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought."

"If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman in his arms, it was a winning hand at cards. To his dismay at the moment he had neither."

"You’ve stopped crying. I’m glad. I don’t want you to cry anymore."

"A hand stole around her mouth, silencing her, then his lips parting her tumbled hair: “The walls have ears.”She blinked, and for the first time, looked around. A thin beam of light beneath what may have been a door. That was all. When he released her, she endeavored to match his own, barely audible tone. “Do the walls understand English?"

"I was born Katie O’Reilly,” she began. “Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels.” Titanic Rhapsody"

"She’d never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted."

"He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given."