“We’ve got to stop meeting like this.”“No, we don’t.” He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it every day for the rest of his life. He just hadn’t told her yet.”

“She felt the glide of his hair as he lowered his head to study the zipper on her skirt. Herimagination supplied other places his hair could touch, and she drew in her breath.He carefully pulled down the zipper, then pulled it back up. After several up and downforays, Kathy grew impatient:”Hello? Have I lost you to a zipper?” Darn. She must sound like every greedy womanwho’d ever lain with him.His soft chuckle reassured her. ” ‘Tis a long night, lass, and the waiting willna hurt ye.These metal teeth are wondrous things.”

“I do not want to date you.”He groaned. “Liv. You’ve got to be kidding me. I picked up my whole life, drove halfway across the country, and you’ve changed your mind? It’s only been fifteen days since you told me you still love me!””Shut up, will you? Will you please just shut up and kiss me again, you big idiot?” With both hands on his face, she molded her lips to his as her heart did a happy dance in her chest. Between kisses, she said, “I want to live with you and marry you and have a family with you and share your life–all the things you said you wanted from me before I ruined it. So no, I will not date you.”

“لم أعُد قادراً على الاستمرار فى البكاء اكثر من ذلك؛صار قلبي مهترئا تحت وقع اقدامٍ كثيــــــــــــــرة داسته،لم يكن امامى خياراتٍ كثيرة إما الحزن وإما الغيــــــــابإخترتُ أن أغيب طويـــــــــلاً،أســــــــافرُ فى ذاتى بعيـــــــــــــــــداً،ألومها على كل شىء،أقتل قلبا لم يعُد قادرا على شىء حتي النبض”

“Her name was a silent song on his lips. Her love was like a circle in the water, radiating ever outward, inevitably encompassing even the remotest of hearts.”

“What are you doing?”“What does it look like? I’m getting down on my knees.”His head butted against her stomach. Her muscles clenched, shocked at the touch, even through the layer of cotton.“I’ve never begged a woman for anything before. Enjoy this.”She tried to think of something sufficiently sassy. “Enjoy it? I can’t even see it.”“It’s symbolic.”

“There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.”

“I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

“Hush,” I said. “I’m here, and I’m not letting you out of my sight anytime soon so keep holding me tight.” I looked down, a little more than afraid of plummeting hundreds of feet down.- Breena to Kian, Silver Frost”

“I often wish I’d got on better with your father,’ he said.But he never liked anyone who–our friends,’ said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her.Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I’ve ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight.”

“He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this – without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.”

“Hell had frozen over and I was lost in its endless labyrinth.”

“Are you telling me you’re cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?”