If you’ll kiss me back,” he whispered huskily, brushing his lips along the curve of her jaw, “I’ll make it sixmillion. If you’ll go to bed with me tonight,” he continued, losing himself in the...

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

You are mad!” she snapped, her chest heaving. “And you are a devil!””And you, my dear,” Royce imperturbably replied, “are a bitch.” With that, heturned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, “The lady and...

“Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears.” She shook her head, remembering. “He was going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this—” She...

You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at...

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It’s either you wade in and play in order to win or you don’t play at all.” – Matthew Farrell

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

If you would take one step forward, darling, you could cry in my arms. And while you do, I’ll tell you how sorry I am for everything I’ve done -” Unable to wait, Ian caught...

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who’d caused the pain to heal it

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. “I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness.””May I ask for a specific example?””Fat priests,” Royce replied, “with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on...

Ian saw the tears shimmering in her magnificent eyes and one of them traced unheeded down her smooth cheek.With a raw ache in his voice he said, “If you would take one step forward, darling,...

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

The groom always smiles proudly because he’s convinced he’s accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she’s been able to convince him of it.

How strange, Royce thought, that, after emerging victorious from more than a hundred real battles, the greatest moment of triumph he had ever known had come to him on a mock battlefield where he’d stood...

Sir Eustace was with Royce and Stefan looking over some maps when he was informed by the guard that the ladies were asking for him. “Is there no end to her arrogance!” Royce bit out,...

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. “What is mine, I intend tokeep.

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens,...

The two of them simply weren’t attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She’d been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.

I’m thinking that it will be autumn soon,” she said, lifting her gaze to his. “Autumn is my absolute favorite season. Spring is overrated. It’s soggy and the trees are still bare from winter. Winter...

Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women’s games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do...

My darling Julie, I know you’ll never see this letter, but it helps to write to you every day. It keeps you close to me. G-d, I miss you so. You haunt every hour of...

I’m familiar with the myth, I’m merely surprised that a femalewould be familiar with the classics.””You must have a very limited experience with my sex,” Alexandrasaid, surprised. “My grandfather said most women are every bit...

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We’re the ones who can’t forget.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn’t control.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

Don’t do this to us.” He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. “You’re letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you’ve discovered I’ve done”.

He will love only once – but it will be for always.

Behold your new mistress, my wife,” he pronounced, “and know that when shebids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her,...

After all, it’s not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

I’d like to shower and change clothes,” she said. “Would you mind waiting for me a half hour?” The question seemed to amuse him. “Not at all,” he said with exaggerated formality. “Please take all...