Kathryn Smith

“You’ll regret crossing me!’‘Richard, I regret meeting you. I think you can safely assume that I also regret everything after that as well.” (Smith 252)”

“I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.”

“Stars are so much more brilliant when they are allowed to shine.”

“To find love you must first be willing to give it.”

“No one knows how to gamble and win, that’s why they call it gambling.”

“I once told you that all actions have a cost, we simply must decide if they are worth paying. If you do not act in the best interest of your own happiness you will regret—and pay for it—for the rest of your life.”

“You’ve been given a second chance at true love. Few of us are rarely given even a first chance. If you ruin this, you will be a bigger fool than I could ever imagine. This time when he leaves you, it really will be your fault.”

“His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.”

“You do not have to see the air to know you breathe it. You do not have to see the truth to believe it and you do not have to have witnessed love to feel it.”

“a man cannot embrace a woman’s faults until he loves her. A woman embraces the faults and then falls in love.”

“I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you. My dear, Ivy, I want to devour you. I want your juices on my toung, flooding my mouth. I want your wetness on my face, your scent covering me. I want your blood in my veins.”

“The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.”