Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

You make every case for marriage but love.

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either.""Then you're doing it wrong.

Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

We never thought we were. That's the important part.

You gotta use everything you possibly can!

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

People don't buy what you do; they buy what you stand for.

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.