“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...”

“I adhere to the law of chastity because I dont believe in pushing women. Thats what it means to be a man. I dont hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely a...”

“And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, Im goin with you.”

“..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.”

“Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. If youre implying that Im spoiled, I assure you that I am not.You should be. His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought her...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”