“- most people don't plan past the honeymoon. But reality sets in when it gets down to dirty socks and what's for dinner.”

“How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?”

“If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.”

“Tallie looked for something to throw, but considering the fact that she threw like a girl, she dumped that plan in lieu of grabbing her new iron and swinging it like a bowling ball between the bad man's legs, where it connected with a nauseating _thunk_.”

“She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history....Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, "I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman." First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him.”

“Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.”

“She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.”