“PERMALINK · 169465 · 15 HOURS AGO"She tried to feel sad, or guilty, or even to be angry about the way things had happened, but there frankly wasn’t much room in either her head or her heart for wishing or moping.”

“I know I shouldn't feel guilty for being angry sometimes, or bitter" "Knowing something is beans.”

“A woman's orgasm is such a fragile thing, dependant as much upon her mind as on her clitoris.”

“He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He’d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn’t drowned. ”

“Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.”

“You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.”

“I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.”