“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

“I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours no...”

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“Oh, come now, you two, Lady Manston said, surely it can be no surprise that I have long hoped for an alliance between the Rokesbys and Bridgertons. Alliance? Billie echoed, and all George could thi...”

“The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.”

“Time owed an alliance to the undying.”

“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.”