You taste like sugar," he pants through a smile, still out of breath."Somehow I doubt that. But I appreciate the thought.

In days long past, Jarod said he’d write a sentence about my love, translated in Russian, and that sentence, like my love, is clearly not for sale, unlike his virginity, or this book, which I’m both offering at ten times the market value, so hurry up and buy now, before it goes down.

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.