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“Since Rose, he’d never wanted to be the right guy for anyone. He hadn’t wanted to carry that extra burden. He liked things nice…

— Loren Mathis

“Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“..he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those…

— Margot Livesey

“It occurred to him that perhaps he ought not to have married a woman with such extraordinary eyes.”

— Julia Quinn

“Now Rose will have to go to the ends of the earth to find-and kill-the man she loves.”

— Richelle Mead

“He was accustomed to women wanting him. What shocked him was the simple fact that he wanted her. Not hot, energetic sex. Not a…

— Anne Stuart

“Rose was unravelling my hard exterior and helping me realize the boy I use to be was still there. I walked around like I…

— Teresa Mummert

“He considered telling her that she could, and often, if she married him.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“He shook his head. “Most men have never attempted to look past your exterior show, let alone actually seen past it. And to their…

— Jess Michaels

“Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I’d ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was…

— Lorraine Heath

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.”

— Marius Gabriel