“Most men do not have the balls to help their women to not need them.”

“Look at yourself for a change! You’ll be counting the grains of rice I buy next! Talk about tight – Scrooge has nothing on you!”

“Can I get two coffees?’ Joanna cringed. That cashier ought to tell her straight that she may have two coffees, but she certainly can’t get them because customers aren’t allowed behind the counter!”

“Conscious of the way spinach has a habit of flaunting itself between front teeth, she packed tooth picks in her new clutch bag.”

“Remember what he said about my picture: I’m lovely and it made him do double cartwheels. Remember also that he’s prone to hyperbole, so don’t take everything he says literally.”

“Joanna swooned on hearing his voice and knew immediately that she would more than merely like him. Could be love at first type, she thought. It was a voice so luscious that only a hunk of a dreamboat could possess”

“Looking for my final love with someone who is ready to settle down. Of course dating is great initially, but I don’t wish to be dating indefinitely, so if you’re looking for an indefinite dating partner, please pass me by.”

“One of your curls could fall striking me with the genius of a million masterpieces without you even noticing the violent storms of my love.”

“Words to feed your passion. Thought to stoke your flickering embers. I see your unseen fires & feed it with my timber.”

“You breathe into my words & animate them with life. I’d fall from heaven a trillion times over to die in the softness of your paradise.”

“The fall of your hair is rushing through my head like elegant waterfalls repeatedly dancing down into an open riverbed.”

“Sometimes I find myself arguing with her hips because her walk is so mean.”

“Your alternate dimension keeps crashing into this one & love’s got me experiencing symptoms without ever getting sick of you.”

“I’ve seen the way she comes on to him—I just can’t stand it. You know—what really shits me is how you spend years working on yourself to get rid of all that stupid eyelash-fluttering and giggling, and then just when you think you’re getting somewhere, you find out that guys still like women who do that sort of thing. I watch ‘em fall for it, every time.”

“Your eyes border on the miraculous the way they resurrect my smile.”