“I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate. I occupy that no man's land - no woman's land - between youth and old age.”

“I am safe. For one night at least. Safe, moored to this man.”

“It's been a long time, you see. There's been no one for five years. Not since Gavin. I've spent five years murdering what I felt for him, starving my need for him, purging my memory. But somehow it still feels...too soon. They say time heals, but--' 'They lied,' he said simply.”

“You're like a box of chocolates with the menu missing - the card that tells you what they are. I never know what I'm going to get with you: a soft, creamy centre, something chewy, or an explosion of alcohol.”

“A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.”

“There are many qualities called for to conquer – to try to tame – a wild land such as this. A weak man or woman could never survive it. This is a task which requires much strength, passion, and determination – but, most of all, a dream that never dies.”

“Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.”