I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It ha… - Lisa Kleypas

"He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?"

"Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body."

"No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.