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"Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his."
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"I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss."
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"I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love."
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"The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this. Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck."
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"Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am."
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"When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart."
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"They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement."
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"It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours."
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"Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs."
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"Josh gathered his sense of injustice and faced Rodan Man-to-man, or rather, elk-to-elk, no, Netah-to-Netah."
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"Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back. Eve: You're not going to hell. Roarke: Oh, and have you got some inside intel on that?Eve: You married a cop...you married me. I'm your goddamn salvation."
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"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
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"I’m going to tell you something once and then whether you die is strictly up to you, Westley said, lying pleasantly on the bed. What I’m going to tell you is this: drop your sword, and if you do, then I will leave with this baggage here—he glanced at Buttercup—and you will be tied up but not fatally, and will be free to go about your business. And if you choose to fight, well, then, we will not both leave alive. You are only alive now because you said 'to the pain.' I want that phrase explained. My pleasure. To the pain means this: if we duel and you win, death for me. If we duel and I win, life for you. But life on my terms. The first thing you lose will be your feet. Below the ankle. You will have stumps available to use within six months. Then your hands, at the wrists. They heal somewhat quicker. Five months is a fair average. Next your nose. No smell of dawn for you. Followed by your tongue. Deeply cut away. Not even a stump left. And then your left eye—And then my right eye, and then my ears, and shall we get on with it? the Prince said. Wrong! Westley’s voice rang across the room. Your ears you keep, so that every shriek of every child shall be yours to cherish—every babe that weeps in fear at your approach, every woman that cries 'Dear God, what is that thing' will reverberate forever with your perfect ears. That is what 'to the pain' means. It means that I leave you in anguish, in humiliation, in freakish misery until you can stand it no more; so there you have it, pig, there you know, you miserable vomitous mass, and I say this now, and live or die, it’s up to you: Drop your sword!The sword crashed to the floor."
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"... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return."
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"Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid."
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"Nonie chewed on her bottom lip for a moment. She'd told Fezzo so much already yet there wasn't a speck of incredulity in his eyes. His expression was serious, and she had his full attention. I'm not quite sure about what to do with Helen, the ghost that followed me home."
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"We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . there’s no way to tell what’s causing their attitude. - Mike"
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"All right, then, she snapped, do as you please! Perhaps afterward we could manage a coherent discussion. Twisting beneath him, she flopped onto her stomach. Christopher went still. After a long hesitation, she heard him ask in a far more normal voice, What are you doing?I’m making it easier for you, came her defiant reply. Go on, start ravishing. Another silence. Then, Why are you facing downward?Because that’s how it’s done. Beatrix twisted to look at him over her shoulder. A twinge of uncertainty caused her to ask, Isn’t it?His face was blank. Has no one ever told you?No, but I’ve read about it. Christopher rolled off her, relieving her of his weight. He wore an odd expression as he asked, From what books?Veterinary manuals. And of course, I’ve observed the squirrels in springtime, and farm animals and-She was interrupted as Christopher cleared his throat loudly, and again. Darting a confused glance at him, she realized that he was trying to choke back amusement. Beatrix began to feel indignant. Her first time in a bed with a man, and he was laughing. Look here, she said in a businesslike manner, I’ve read about the mating habits of over two dozen species, and with the exception of snails, whose genitalia is on their necks, they all— She broke off and frowned. Why are you laughing at me?Christopher had collapsed, overcome with hilarity. As he lifted his head and saw her affronted expression, he struggled manfully with another outburst. Beatrix. I’m . . . I’m not laughing at you. You are!No I’m not. It’s just . . . He swiped a tear from the corner of his eye, and a few more chuckles escaped. Squirrels . . . Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels."
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"We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know we can do this. But I need you to believe it. You need to believe... in us. Peyton didn't say anything for a long moment, and J. D. could literally hear his heart beating. Then she finally answered. It would have to be called Kendall and Jameson. It took J. D a moment to catch on. Then he grinned. No way. Jameson and Kendall. It's alphabetical. You told our boss that you banged me on top of your desk. Kendall and Jameson sounds great"
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"Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking."
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