“Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.”

“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”

“The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.”

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

“One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.”

“Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.”

“You sweet…beautiful…lunatic,” he heard himself mutter.”