“I want to go to the party!’‘I said no.’‘I’ve been totally good.’‘You shot me with an arrow.”

“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

“No, I would say they are more arseholey than you.”

“Then when Matt had come along it hadn't been fireworks, passion and fights and drama. It had been low- key, sweet, lovely. But that didn't meant it wasn't the real thing. It never had done. Just because it wasn't suprising hadn't meant it wasn't right.”

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”

“She's home. That's all. That's true love, I can't explain it any better than that.”

“I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten.”