74 quotes found
Author · American
American author
“If it must be done, it's best done bravely.”
“His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.”
“Id tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.”
“I’d tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.”
“Ill be your friend in daylight. Ill treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, Ill not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.”
“Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.”
“Maybe thats what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.”
“Jenny: You didn't leave?Gareth: Of course I left. I was hungry, and I couldn't find anything to eat. I bought a loaf and some cheese. And oranges. Wait. You mean you thought I had left. Without say...”
“Jenny: But surely Lord Blakely could not abandon his estates for so long.Gareth: No. Lord Blakely could not. Not unless he had someone he could trust to run his estates in his absence. And Lord Bla...”
“You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.”
“He knew taht many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as ...”
“Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.”
“This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.”
“I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my s...”
“One mustnt justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.”
“A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. Its a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.”
“I hated you, she continued, because you have done nothing more than abide by rules that every gentlewoman follows every day of her life. Yet for this prosaic feat, you are feted and cosseted as if ...”
“Men touch their horses to calm them, she said distantly. They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.”
“What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent childs life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, the choice that some unfortunate women are put tosell the...”
“She wagged a finger at him. Youre mispronouncing that word. Your pardon? He groped, trying to remember what hed said. Suffragette? How does one pronounce it, then? Suffragette, she said, is prono...”
“When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.”
“If a man ever lets you know that he sees marriage as a trap, and women as nothing but scheming connivers, you are by no means to marry him. Any man that sees your entire sex in so harsh a light has...”
“She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.”
“He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.”
