“Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.”

“I thought you knew that.""I didn´t." And I was starting to think that ignorance was at least somewhere in the neighborhood of bliss because the more i knew, the angrier I got.”

“I want you, Kaylee, like I’ve never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.”

“I have choices," I insisted, refusing to break eye contact. "We both do. I may have to make mine carefully, and make a few compromises along the way, but I have a choice. I choose you.”

“I should have said something. ... But my mouth wouldn't open, and the longer I stood there in silence, the better I can to understand the problem. It wasn't that I had nothing to say to him. It was that I had too much to say.”

“I didn’t know if I could stop her with one blow. But I could whack the crap out of her.”

“Wait, Saturday night?" The ladder-backed chair creaked and I looked up as he leaned forward to eye me in growing suspicion. "I thought you stayed home."I shrugged and raised one eyebrow at him. "I thought I was human.”