A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and...

What do you think they were doing? Playing a few hands of Find-the-Lady?

One never knows what fate has in store.”Turning toward Rohan, Amelia discovered he was glancing over her in a slow inventory that spurred her heart into a faster beat. “I don’t believe in fate,” she...

So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant.”well…yes, but I’d never date the UPS guy. Those brown shorts are just not a turn-on...

If I cause a collapse when I try to get off, I’d like you to be out of harm’s way first.” They both felt the ground shift beneath them. “My lord,” Catherine asked, her eyes...

Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.

I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like...

The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can...

To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone’s soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much...

But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling.

I’m not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral...

I’ve needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.Logan to Madeline

All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn’t equal what I feel for you in one minute of the day. I love you so much there is no pleasure...

I’ll follow you to the next life if I have to,” he whispered harshly in her ear. “You’ll never be free of me. I’ll chase you through heaven and hell and beyond.” He continued to...

… I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

You have no romance in your soul,” Poppy told Harry at intermission. “Not in my soul, no,” he replied gravely. “However, I have a great deal of it in other locations.”-Poppy & Harry

I tried to curl around him, holding him with my arching body. His mouth was slow and searching, the kisses hard at first, then loosening as if unraveling from their own heat. The pleasure thickened,...

A man’s vanity is more fragile that you might think. It’s easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?”Lillian shot her a withering glance. “Daisy, don’t be a pea wit.

Most men don’t seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

Cam held her closer. “Marry me, Amelia. You’re what I want. You’re my fate.” One hand slid to the back of her head, gripping the braids and ribbons to keep her mouth upturned. “Say yes.”...

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

Do you miss me?” Justine asked.”No,” he said, “I spend all day not allowing myself to miss you. I don’t let myself think about marshmallow-flavored kisses, or how soft the spaces between your toes are,...

You’re so full of it, darlin’.

I’m the only man she’s going to have.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile…no sound sweeter than your laughter…no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you,...

What are you thinking?” he asks.I know Gage hates it when I cry – he is completely undone by the sight of tears – so I blink hard against the sting. “I’m thinking how thankful...

She shook her head as she confessed, “I want it so much, I’m afraid to hope.” “Never be afraid to hope,” Rohan said gently. “It’s the only way to begin.” -Rohan to Win

Dear, that is not St. Vincent’s fantasy, it’s his reality. And you’re probably the first sweet, decent girl he’s ever had anything to do with.

Natalie, you’re not as nearly wise as you think you are, she thought wistfully. Take the man who would make sacrifices for you, who would love you for who you are and not for what...

And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from you. If I were well, I would take you to my bed, and I would show you as much passion as...

You think you want me now. But you’ll change. Someday you’ll find it damned easy to forget about me. I’m a bastard. A servant, and not even an upper servant at that–“”You’re the other half...

I’d sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you’ll always be what I wanted most.”~ Hardy Cates

And really, it’s only fair since you tolerate me.

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn’t hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time!!

A woman could do that to you – reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to...

Things that remind me of our parents,” Poppy said absently, “and that lovely cottage in Primrose Place… they always make me feel better. Like eating these tarts. And flower-print curtains. And reading Aesop’s fables.” “The...

Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.

that means, ‘May your garden be filled with fine, fat hedgehogs.’ Which, I may add, is considered quite a blessing among the Rom.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.”Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo’s life.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Sometimes when we’re not paying attention, relationships hap­pen.There is no rule that requires two people in love to be ex­actly alike. In fact, there is some scientific evidence to suggest that on a genetic level,...

I think you could probably thaw out a glacier, honey.” -Hardy Cates

I have nothing to offer you,” he finally said in a guttural voice.”Nothing.”Win’s lips had turned dry. She moistened them, and tried to speak through a thrill of anxious trembling. “You have yourself,” she whispered.”You...

Every day is filled with ordinary miracles. You don’t have to look far to find them.”-Liberty

I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word…the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds...