“He caught her elbow before she'd taken more than a few steps. "Are you walking home?""Yes.""It's," he glanced at his watch, "nine o'clock."She shrugged out of his hold and continued on her way. "The Boogeyman doesn't come out until ten, so I'm good.”

“Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it's going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you”

“This kiss was better than any climb or bungee jump or zip line. Better than any other kiss. Damn him.”

“Girls fell all over him. Guys bought him beers.... "Women eager to say they've been Zaned. You know there're T-shirts that say I've been ZANED.”

“This is me, asking a risk-taker like you to trust me. To let me love you until I take my last breath. These were my last solo flights. From now on I want to wing everything with you and only you.”

“Life has no guarantees, but my life has no meaning if you're not in it.”

“You two want to get a room?" Dean asked."We already have one," Lucy answered.”

“I don't bite, Lucy."She wanted him to. She wanted him to bite and suck and nibble and have his wicked way with her. She had a feeling he did things to a girl that made her body so turned on it took hours to turn off.”

“Forget being turned on. This man, this kiss, encompassed everything she ever wanted.”

“Wow," Clay said. "Never thought I'd see the day a woman walked away from you. And in the middle of a the desert." He cracked up and pulled his cell phone from his pocket. "I'm definitely tweeting this.”

“I think you could wear a paper bag and still look good.”