Chloe

“Because that’s what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved.”
― Julie Anne Long, How the Marquess Was Won

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be as tense as a crossbow drawn back. The reader should want it as badly as the hero and heroine, and feel as satisfied and transported and transformed as the hero and heroine in the wake of it. There are different ways to use kisses in a romance, but that first kiss is so meaningful, a pinnacle, and can be more intimate than sex.”
― Julie Anne Long

“Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time.”
― Tessa Dare, A Week to be Wicked