“Like sex, seduction, and sin had decided to get it on and Cole Carson was the result.”

“I will gladly entertain and endure any and all bouts of jealous, angry sex you want to toss my way.”

“The muscles in his neck clenched and unclenched. "So you've finally decided to take my advice and keep the hell away from me?”

“Lucy, you’re a passionate, emotional person. Jude isn’t so much different. What do you expect to be the result when you two come together? You two don’t multiply the peaks and the valleys together; you exponentially affect them.”

“I’d found boys were fairly simple creatures to figure out, at least on a primal level—on a mind, heart, and soul matter they were about as confounding to me as thermal dynamics—and since primal was just a nice term for raging hormones, I decided to use their overabundance of teenage boy ones to my advantage.”

“Luce," Jude said, stopping me, "I get what a piece of shit I am, and it's not awful or unfair or incorrect for people to call me out on what I am. But I'd like to think a person can change, and I swear to you I'm going to try to leave me piece of shitedness behind.”

“He had a temper, not a good thing. Because I had one too.”