“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”

“When he looked up at Annabel, he was just a man, looking at a woman, praying and hoping that she loved him the way he loved her.”

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”

“It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.”

“I want you. I want you now, in every way a man can want a woman.”

“Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife.Moses must have forgotten to write that one down”

“Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.”