“Books allowed her vicarious tastes of infinite variety, but they didn't supplant the need to venture out into the big and the messy. In fact, just the opposite. Books convinced her that something more existed---something intuitive, beyond reason---and they whetted her appetite to find it.”
“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.”
“There was something different about the way he regarded her. She wasn't the most intuitive when it came to the opposite sex, let alone the opposite species, but something had changed.”
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
“She tilted her face to his, and he discovered that kissing her was something he didn't have to train for by reading a book. It came naturally.”
“He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.”