" Passionate kisses, the intoxicating exchange of breath and saliva - and something more intimate - something there was no real name for, like a spark catching between us and taking light.
How had I forgotten this? How had I been satisfied with anything else?
Guy...Mel...it was like choosing celluloid kisses over the real thing. The real thing was raw and powerful and dangerous...but it was the real thing. Had I really believed I could make do with safe substitutes? "

― Josh Lanyon , The Dark Tide (The Adrien English Mysteries, #5)