“One would think of a boy layingsyllables with his tongueonto a woman’s skin: those are linessewn entirely of silence.”

“Never send a boy to do a woman’s job, Irma.” - Payton Kendall”

“His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.”

“Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.”

“I’m not entirely surprised to find out it was Cash. The whole scenario fits his character more than it does Nash’s. Only a bad boy would come, uninvited, into a girl’s house and wake her up to seduce her in her own bedroom.And only a bad boy would think I wouldn’t mind. I have to smile at that.He’s got nerve. I’ll give him that.”

“Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.”