“It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces.”

“Lily closed her eyes and screamed at the top of her lungs as she made the scariest fall of her life, plunging to her certain death while clinging to her rescuer who really didn’t rescue her at all.”

“You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.”

“Having someone this male next to her made her soul feel exhilarated and convey brazenly suggestive, female, liberal ideas to her inner id.”

“This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.”

“The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire.”

“Help you? I’d lick you, and most girls would want to marry you if you so much as talked to them.”