Diane

“You need to modulate that unwarranted ire, buddy. I'm not your 'ho and you ain't my pimp”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx

“Eve “I shopped,"she said
Roarke "Dear God! Are you all right? Should I call for the MTs?"
Eve "Smartass.”
― JD Robb

“I know how to take care of myself.” “No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don’t know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That’s conceit.” She slapped the glass on the counter. “It’s independence and capability.” “To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.”
― Nora Roberts, Whiskey Beach

“If I didn’t say it, how do you know?” “When you touch me, when you look at me, when you hold me, I feel it.” She looked up at him, eyes drenched. “And I couldn’t love you this much without you loving me back. I couldn’t know how right it is to be with you if I didn’t know you loved me.”
― Nora Roberts, Whiskey Beach