131 quotes found
“You are walking to Hope Springs? Yes, Your Grace. In this weather? She glanced around and gave him a smile. I havent any other weather to walk in.”
“Hed seen that absent look from her dozens of times in London. She thought herself invisible, and was not. Not to him. This was the second time hed mentioned marriage to her. The second time she hea...”
“If he spoke, there was no possible outcome but another disastrous exchange of words at cross-purposes. The chances of him finding both the right words and the right inflection were, in his experien...”
“Dread that she would meet some other man and see in him all the joy of life that he lacked. I will see you home. The words came out all wrong, with gruff emphasis on the word will. One look at her,...”
“She bent her head over the flowers. He knew she was not beautiful. He knew she did not see herself as the object of a mans lust. He knew if he told her he found her desirable, shed not understand h...”
“He fell quiet, but she understood this was his way. He was not a talkative man. Once, shed imagined him sitting alone in his house, a monster ready to devour anyone who came near. What she imagined...”
“She laughed, and the duke might actually have smiled, though one could never be certain.”
“He remounted. I will ride with you. With some effort, he gentled his voice. If that would be agreeable to you. How kind of you. Thank you.”
“She laughed, and the sound pierced his heart.”
“Her feet shifted underneath her. Im not sure what troublesyou.The wolf prowled, though he sat in a great chair. His uneasinessmade her skin tight and her heart race. Hakan was a handsomeman, very a...”
“True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.”
“You dont have to be perfect to have the perfect life.”
“They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.”
“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.Patricia Briggs.”
“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their hands. Her own were small, though strong and supple ...”
“Because, good God, Lily Wellstone had the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and the spirit of the devil glinting from her eyes. She was a woman worth losing his soul for.”
“A lot of highly-educated people have been told what to think, therefore, they think they know it all. The other segment of the population has to figure out how to think, therefore they question eve...”
“I'd rather have your lifeblood tainted than spilled on a forest floor.'He said no more, just held her. 'I'm not worth it,' she whispered at last.'Who says so?''I do.''Then you don't know what love is.”
“It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods”
“I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christma...”
