“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover Ares, and her crippled husband Hephaestus ) I always felt sorry for him), and all the rest got rolled up like a worn-out carpet?”

“Give a man a finger, he’ll put a wedding ring on it!”

“I will never forget the magic I felt the moment I kissed your lips.”

“Tell me..how do you stand there?filling the doorway….of my life.”

“I breathe in…the fragranceof love, and moist sandthe onehis roses lefton both my handsI just keep on breathingevery momentas much as I canpreserving it, in my bodyfor the dayit can’t.”

“Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!”

“She’s always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.’ ‘Prose and pudding?”I don’t expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.”

“He looked at my blue eye and then my brown. “Your eyes are like heaven and earth, and I’m trapped somewhere in between.”

“Women are beautiful, sophisticated, and complex creatures, but they do have dark secrets too.”

“How do you know you love her?’ His friend asked.’Because I would cross a hundred rivers and die a thousand suns just to be with her,’ He said.”

“Let us remain in Hell side-by-side, lustful! And, together, both stronger people.”

“And with that they passed another little milestone, took another step together. From flirting, to casual sex, to a more intense variety. From quick e-mails to much longer chats by phone. From a long-distance romance to playing house. From an uncertain near future to one that just might be shared. And now an agreement on exclusivity. Monogamy. All sealed with a mouthful of pistachio gelato.”

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.”