Intruguingnuisance

“It doesn't seem fair," he murmured, once again smoothing out her messy bed head. “You get all the morning sickness, the kicks in the ribs and the bloated stomach and swollen ankles, and I get nine months of sex without condoms.”
― Linda Kage, The Right to Remain Mine

“Like it or not, she was going to belong to him.”
― Julie Garwood, Ransom

“The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation. A hundred questions sprang up in her mind, jostling with each other to reach the front of the queue. Did he prefer essays, dramas, novels, poems? How many books had he read, and in which languages? Which ones had he read again and again?”
― Tessa Dare, When a Scot Ties the Knot

“Everybody needs somebody.”
― Samantha Young, Hero