“When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.”

“She'd been a silly girl who'd dreamed of love, and a stupid girl who'd declared love a fraud; but she'd never imagined that when she found it,it would be richer, more powerful than dreams, and the impossibility of keeping it more painful than the worst betrayal.”

“Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. "It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles.”

“Men made life far too difficult when they insisted on neatly categorizing their emotions. When emotions became complicated, they brooded and struggled so mightily in an attempt to simplify them again—when, given time, everything would sort itself out and slide into its place.”

“She did like him...sometimes. When he was not a complete knacker.”

“When you come home to me, I will always be here waiting for you.”

“Hot, hard and so thick that her fingertips didn't meet when she closed her hand around him.”