I love you,” he said, his voice catching. “When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.
A fit encomium for marital bliss,” Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. “Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver.
Oh, I have felt lust. And I’ve indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
By all accounts Rafe’s life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and hadn’t taken that hat off since.
She was everything he’d ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he’d ever thought to find in a lady.
If you don’t mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.
I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.
Marry me, Esme. Please. Honor me. I will honor you as your husband never did. Our marriage would be a remedy against sin, if anyone could ever call it a sin to love you.”Sebastian Bonnington to Esme Rawlings
Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
I don’t want Christmas season to end, because it’s the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.
I don’t want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.
Here, drink your liqueur,” Henry said, tossing back her drink. “I carry it with me everywhere because it’s the only kind of drink that Leo doesn’t like, so there’s a chance I’ll still have some tomorrow.
Mr. Cope…’ Povy began.Jem narrowed his eyes.’The lad has a remarkably innocent face.”Innocence is a time of life, not an irrevocable blot.