"Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woma..."
- Nora Roberts
"Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking."
- Amy Sedaris
"Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world.""Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."The au pair sighe..."
- Gordon Korman
"Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought."
- E.A. Bucchianeri
"This date had started as bland and was speeding right along to abysmal."
- Katherine McIntyre
"Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she'd been on. The last PROPER dat..."
- Derek Landy
"Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you."
- Rob Liano
"I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain."
- Kate Morton
"If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—”“Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there."
"Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world."
- Joan Lowery Nixon