“She seemed to enjoy the control and picked out some stretch blue jeans that hugged his ass tighter than a pair of kissing Proulahs. On his world, once mated, the blue crustaceans shared a shell for the rest of their life in an eternal kiss.”

“I feel alive when you kiss me.”

“Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention.”

“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.”

“Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life.”

“Driving in your world seems a bit dangerous.”

“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.”