“There, I've said it, and I said it in front of all these strange and quite scary women and that guy, because I'm less frightened of them than I am of being alone with you and you turning me down.”

“Don't kiss me", he said, looking into Natalie's eyes. There was a second's silence. "Let me kiss you. I'm old-fashioned that way.”

“Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety."No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.”

“If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back!”

“I was never a watering pot before I met Charles," he [Tris] sobbed. "It's all his fault.""You never cared before you met Charles," Derek said quietly "You never loved before you met Charles.”

“Let even the momentum of tripping help lead you down your path.”

“We will civilize you yet," she retorted."I don't know," Tristan said abruptly. "I rather like him uncivilized." Then he seemed to realize what he'd said, and went crimson.”