“. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.”
“Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.”
“Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”
“Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.”
“Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things.But it always came back to you.”
“It was like trying to solve a math equation with a poem.”