romance

"Your voice sounds like a midnight fire. All warm and worn in and golden. I could listen to you talk forever.""I could never do that". She laughed at him. He brought his lips to her ear. "Your scent is like violets early in spring,"he whispered. Then he laughed at himself because though it was true, he sounded like the worst kind of fool."

"I feel…and I have reason to believe…that we could come to mean something to each other."

"I feel like I’m a disappointment to mankind,” he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. “Someone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum."

"there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know."

"Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye."

"Don’t call me babe. I’m not a floozy. Or a freaking talking pig."

"[Ranger] "How's your mental health?"he asked. "I heard about Soder."[Stephanie] "I'm rattled.""I have a cure."Oh, boy.He put the truck in gear and headed for the exit. "I know what you're thinking,"he said. "And that wasn't where I was going. I was going to suggest work.""I knew that."He looked over at me and grinned. "You want me bad."I did. God help me."

"Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil."

"In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything."

"Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?"

"Of course. Silly me. Such a sad, exciting score, which no doubt you can play? So many accomplishments, Mr. Grey.”“And the greatest one is you, Miss Steele."

"You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice."

"I warn you, Kelsey, that I’m an extremely patient man. I’ve had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as a tiger has taught me that attentive persistence and focused diligence always pay off. Consider yourself forewarned, priyatama. I’m on the hunt. I’ve caught your scent, and I won’t be thwarted in my course."

"Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make."

"[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him."

"I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing."

"He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat."

"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

"Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't,” he said, his own jaw a little tight. “So I stole his car."

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."