“If you were expecting Prince Charming, I'm sorry. He's with his boyfriend.”
“Watch that mouth, cher. I own a ball gag. I know how to use it, he growled.”
“Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire.”
“Dominance and submission can be a game or a way of life, depending on how seriously you play...the promise of pleasure can be every bit as arousing as the pleasure itself, maybe more." (Jack)”
“Watch that mouth, cher. I own a ball gag. I know how to use it,” he growled.”
“You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me.”
“With a smile, Jack sheathed himself with a condom from the nightstand, then rolled on top of her, a steamy kiss on his lips as he covered her mouth. A new swell of desire rolled in her belly as Jack probed at her entrance.”
“But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.”
“As it happened, the first three major advances in my life—and I will list all the advances here—
1. shoe-tying
2. pulling up on Xs
3. steadying hand against sneaker when tying
4. brushing tongue as well as teeth
5. putting on deodorant after I was fully dressed
6. discovering that sweeping was fun
7. ordering a rubber stamp with my address on it to make billpaying more efficient
8. deciding that brain cells ought to die
—have to do with shoe-tying, but I don't think that this fact is very unusual.”
“I snapped off a knobby twig from a shrub at my heel and pulled it back into a messy bun.”
“We only have this one moment: NOW.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.
'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--'
'No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.”
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