Alexia Adams

“He’d said he couldn’t let her go. She couldn’t figure out how they could stay together.”

“If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need.”

“Is that the way you live your life, logic over emotion?” “That’s the way I run my business. Up to now, there hasn’t been any overlap.”

“For God’s sake, Helen, I stood in front of my peers and basically said, ‘Look, chaps, I can’t vote because all I can think about is kissing that brilliant woman who was just in here.’ And I don’t even bloody know if you still want me to kiss you.”