Adventure Quote by Lisa Ballantyne

“relationships were complicated, volatile things. They were riddled with lies, with hidden secrets, ones you only found out about when it was too late.”

— Ania Ahlborn

“In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a…

— John Lanchester

“He had something to prove to himself if not to her. He could have a thoughtful conversation with her. He could watch a movie…

— Skye Warren

“So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise.”

— Anthony Liccione

“I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my…

— Philippa Gregory

“A gentleman might have stopped then. She had climaxed, and she was still a virgin, and he was probably a beast for wanting to…

— Julia Quinn

“There was still so much unresolved between them, but in this moment, she couldn't bring herself to care about the way their relationship had…

— Anna Zaires

“I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.”

— Catherine Sanderson

“It seemed so natural, to talk to him about the odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“whether to spill his secret because she had opened up to him a few days previously, telling him about her painful past and why…

— J.C. Reed

“What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from…

— Edith Wharton

“Women were such a strange but captivating paradox he thought, you wanted to love them and make them happy yet somehow, sometimes in doing…

— Jill Thrussell