He loved her.He wanted her.He needed her.And he needed her now.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

I don’t know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

You have to live each hour as if it’s your last and each day as if you were immortal. – Kate Sheffield

Watch over Honoria, will you? See she doesn’t marry an idiot. (Daniel Smythe-Smith)

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

I can’t imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

Anthony Bridgerton hátradőlt bőr karosszékében, elgondolkodva kortyolta a whiskyt; lötykölte, körbe áramoltatta a pohárban, majd megszólalt: – Arra gondoltam, hogy megnősülök.Benedict Bridgerton, aki éppen azon szokását gyakorolta, amit anyja annyira megvetett, nevezetesen székét két hátsó...

he is your special friend.

Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, “I’m thinking about getting married.”Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over.Colin...

Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I’m wrong. It’s brighter than the sun, just as you are.

No,” he said hoarsely, “the chair will do just fine, thank you.””If I know you are uncomfortable, I shan’t be able to sleep.” She sounded remarkably like a damsel in distress.Dunford shuddered. He had never...

Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ – one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn’t a woman alive who could go from point...

Seven.” Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.

And she never knew that he laid awake the whole time, his lips at her temple, his hand against her hair.Whispering her name.Whispering other words as well.

A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

And if that weren’t bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.The damned woman had locked him out. She’d taken all the food and locked him out.”You’ll pay for this!” he yelled...

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she’d smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she’d stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he’d swum through a rosebush, which wasn’t as...

Caroline, do you value your neck?””Yes, I’m rather fond of it. Why?””Because if you don’t shut up, I’m going to wring it.

I thought that I needed a church and hundreds of guests and music thatactually sounded like music, but I was wrong.What I needed was a drunken priest, irreverent guests, and a companionwho learned to play...

what a sad pair we are,” she said. “Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

James – “Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?”Elizabeth – “Oh, I’m definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you.

Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung in the air instead of on a piece of paper. Dancing was a...

I love you for the children we’ll have and for the years we’ll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more, for every one of your smiles.

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

You’re in a rather odd mood today.”I’m soaking wet, Eloise.”No need to snap at me about it, I didn’t force you to walk across town in the rain.”It wasn’t raining when I left,”. There was...

I can’t help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would...

I loveyou. I loveyou, my cousin’s wife. I loveyou, theone woman I can never have. I loveyou, Francesca Bridger-ton Stirling.

His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her.He worshipped her. He’d walk across fire for her. He——still had the audience...

Tiene miedo. Es mucho mas fácil cerrarse a las personas que amarlas. Si uno se rodea el corazón con un sólido muro, nadie puede acercarse lo bastante para romperlo. ,No le parece?

Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. “I want you,” he said.Her eyes flicked downward, and her lips curved ever so slightly. “I know.””No,”...

Felicity,” Mrs. Featherington interurupted, “why don’t you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?”For the life of him, Colin couldn’t imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa’s watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the...

Yes?””When you said you weren’t angry…””Yes?””Were you?””I was rather annoyed,” he admitted.”But not angry?” She sounded as if she didn’t believe him.”Believe me, Henry, when I get angry, you’ll know.””What happens?”His eyes clouded over slightly...

In three days,” he continued, “I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?””You’ll save me from marauding minotaurs?

She’d ceased spying upon him, that was true, but the damage was done. Every time he sat at his desk, he could feel her eyes upon him, even though he knew very well she’d shut...

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn’t they?

I don’t like your tone,” was Violet’s standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

She’d met Colin on a Monday.She’d kissed him on a Friday.Twelve years later.She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

You have a minute and a half left.””Fine,” she snapped. “Then I’ll reduce this conversation to one single fact. Today I had six callers. Six! Can you recall the last time I had six callers?”Anthony...

Miss. My. Wife.

Sometimes Hen…I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

You scream like a leettle girl.

A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor – ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young...

Caroline stamped her foot in frustration, but when it landed, it landed on something considerablyless flat than the floor.”Owww!” he yelled.Oh! His foot!Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry , she mouthed.I didn’t mean it.”If you think I can understand that,”...

the air changes.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches — hands, he reminded himself, hands — and grinned anew.

Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots,” Daphne ground out, “but I was never positive until today.

John shrugged. “It always seemed silly to me to desire a woman who cannot converse any better than a sheep.”Belle leaned forward, her eyes glittering mischievously. “Really? I would have thought you’d prefer such a...