He smiled. “How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular.
Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.
Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.
I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.
For a woman’s words to wound would require a man to listen first!
What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.
You are…beyond my imagination. It’s a wonder you can be touched at all.
I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers.
I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.
Lord John: ‘The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.’ Lady Nora: ‘I am sorry to hear that, I suppose it takes some wit to produce one’s own entertainment. Are you often bored?
I’ve heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness
Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.
If Gerry were dying of thirst and spotted Alex two feet from a well, he still would not think he required his younger brother’s help. It simply would never occur to him that Alex might be able to provide it.
There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can’t. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.
Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical.