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...

The same amount of terrible?

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion,and it wasn’t wicked.It was love, and it was divine.

Love’s about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing...

Just curious,she mouthed.”What? I didn’t catch that.”Jjuussttccuurriioouuss.She drew it out this time, hoping he’d be able to read her lips.”If you spoke out loud,” he drawled, “I might understand what you’re saying.”Caroline stamped her foot...

Darling,” he said distractedly,”about the moon…””Yes?””I don’t think it matters whether you want it or not.””What are you talking about?” “The moon. I think it’s yours.”Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. “Fine. i’m...

He gave her a sly, sideways look. “Did youbring it?””My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?”His smile widened. “I brought mine.”Daphne gasped. “You didn’t!””I did. Just to torture Mother. I’m going peruse it...

Any man, you’ll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

He closed his eyes. The insides of his eyelids were a brownish black, not at all the same as the thick purple of the night. Darkness had so many colors. It was strange, that, and...

And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question – one Colin Bridgerton – felt precisely the same way……..His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt...

I am going to kill you,” he hissed.She gulped. “Don’t you want to lecture me first?”He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction.”I take that back,” he said with precisely clippedwords. “First I...

I very specifically told you to stay away from Ned Blydon.””I chose not to follow your advice. Ned is a very nice person. Handsome, personable—a perfect escort.””That is precisely why I wanted you to keep...

I love you with everything I am, everything I’ve been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children...

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

No words for the passion. No words for the need.No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room...

And if you say that’s because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I’m disowning all three of you.

It’s only through sheer force and luck that she’s yet to take over the world.

At present, however, with his aching head and queasy stomach, Sebastian was feeling exceedingly resistible. Or if not that, then resistant. Aphrodite herself could descend from the ceiling, floating on a bloody clamshell, naked but...

Don’t ruin it. The moment is too rare.

you’ll be a danger to the ladies soon.”Harry very nearly rolled his eyes. Sebastian had already made conquests of nearly all the girls in the village near Hesslewhite. He must give off some sort of...

You don’t have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one.”-Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3)

It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed...

I don’t believe I’ve ever ingested anything quite so ancient,” Gareth murmured.

Love works in mysterious ways,