“Every time she shut her eyes she saw herself wrapped in his arms in the middle of that beautiful bed just right for conceiving children.”

“She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.”

“She tilted her face to his, and he discovered that kissing her was something he didn't have to train for by reading a book. It came naturally.”

“How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?”

“How could she be sorry about losing her virginity in a romance-novel way on a sunset sail?”

“Fortunately she spread nothing except food on the beckoning cloth, and his sanity partially returned.”

“By George, the next time he found himself on the road all alone late at night, he was going to whistle along to every damn song on the radio."That'll show them," he snarled, though he had no idea who he'd be showing nor why he nearly tore the knob off when he shut off the radio.”