“I am asking you to marry me because I love you, he said, because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in betwe...”

“Miss Bridgerton, he said, the devil himself couldnt scare you.She forced her eyes to meet his. Thats not a compliment, is it?He lifted her hand to his lips, brushing a feather-light kiss across her...”

“Claptrap last week, Lady D announced. I think the priest is getting old.Gareth opened his mouth, but before he could say a word, his grandmothers cane swung around in a remarkably steady horizontal...”

“No one said we had to spend every waking moment together," he said, "but at the end of the day"-he leaned and kissed each of her eyebrows, in turn-"an most of the time during, there is no one I wou...”

“This is a wonderful day, Anthony was muttering to himself. A wonderful day. He looked up sharply at Gareth. You dont have sisters, do you?None, Gareth confirmed.I am in possession of four, Anthony ...”

“Im not certain youd know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”

“They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.”