“Woman. Buckle”

“You wanna taste me?" he murmured.Yes, I wanted to taste him. I would pay every penny of Aunt Ella's inheritance to taste him."No," I lied.He did a full grin this time, a full satisfied grin. It was hot, so hot my knees totally buckled and he took all my weight into his body."Liar," he whispered...”

“Bottom line, no one fucks with my woman.”

“... any man is defined by the woman who shares her bed with him.”

“You’d give up your brothers for a woman?” Brick asked incredulously and Shy’s eyes moved to him.“Abso-fucking-lutely.”“Seriously?” Boz asked.“Not any woman,” Shy nodded my way then invited "now ask again.”

“Stop calling me 'babe'. It's demeaning. I'm not a babe, I'm a woman”

“…when you talk about Mike, you look like a woman who’s talkin’ about a guy she likes. You talk about Cal, you look like a woman who’s talkin’ about the man she needs to breathe.”