The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

When you die you say "Game Over" and that's all the game is over. You as an actor you die with this character stuff, but a new character is build.

The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

I've always wanted to see my name up in tights.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.