“Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go.”

“What if I can never remember us?" She broke the silence and stilled him."Then I guess we'll have to fall in love all over again." "How can you be so sure that's possible?" "Because we're so fucking good at it.”

“You're mine to take, pretty one. I'll fuck you when I want and how I want!" Another surge of the heat wave, muscles clenching and squeezing. "Let me in," he commanded. "Don't fight me. I will have you dammit! You're mine!""Give me all of you," Killian demanded of Colton. "You're mine! It's mine.”

“Right before you head out running, it can be hard to remember exactly why you're doing it. You often have to override a nagging sense of futility, lacing up your shoes, telling yourslef that no matter how unlikely it seems right now, after you finish you will be glad you went. It's only afterward that it makes sense, although even then it's hard to rationalize why. You just feel right. After a run, you feel at one with the world, as though some unspecified, innate need has been fulfilled.”

“You deserve a man who will take you and keep you, not a man who will have you and leave you. I can’t be the man who does that to you.”

“It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark”

“The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?”