Possession was nine-tenths of the law, and the stray tenth was self-possession. - Esther Friesner

Dignity and self-assurance are everything to a woman, especially a naked one.

He did not know the proper name by which to call preshrunk designer jeans, yet if left to his own lexical devices, he would name them Paradise. Like many another man of faith, he yearned for entry thereto.

Satanism? In Whitman?
"Mmm-hmm." She threaded her arm through his. "You can find Satanism in everything if you've got the right sort of mind and you look hard enough."