“If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?”

“I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.”

“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

“Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.”

“There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room”

“Forgive me, madam," he said lightly, amused, "but waiting to make love to you again is straining my nerves." She scoffed but she was quite shaken; he could see it in her expression, in the way she nervously toyed with the buttons on her pelisse."How awfully presumptuous of you to think I'd let you.""You will," he insisted soothingly.She gaped at him."Please continue," he urged. "I'm aching to hear the rest.""You're as arrogant as usual.""You missed it, though.""I absolutely did not," she asserted.He grinned. "You missed my arrogance almost as much as I missed your impudence, little one.""That's absurd.""I love you, Caroline," he softly, quickly replied, catching her off guard with such tenderness. "Move on before I decide I'm finished with this conversation, rip off your clothes, and show you how much.”

“I'm nervous whenever I perform”