M. K. Hobson

"I don’t think that’s the answer he was looking for. It’s not the answer I was looking for. But maybe it’s the right one."

"She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of bal…"

"Love. Such a lot of damn fuss."

"It was her own evil assumptions that had done her in. She hadn’t even considered the third possible explanation for his strange behavior—that he was a perfectly nice man, without an ounce of guile, ju…"

"Before the sun went down again, she realized, she would be in New York. The thought sent a nervous thrill through her entire body. Her throat was tight, her heart suddenly racing."

"“Don’t lie,” he said. “That’s my job."

"Having engaged in vigorous and passionate debate while on their honeymoon trip from New York, they had arrived at the startling—and rather liberating—conclusion that the marriage itself was not at all…"

"There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse."