This explains so much,” she said, clucking her tongue in mother-hen fashion. “You’re compensating for this withered appendage.”Withered appendage? What the devil was she talking about? He shook his head, trying to clear it. Colin’s...

You intend to keep me confined in here with you for three days?” His voice was low and ominous.”It doesn’t have to take three days,” she said, “It just depends how long it takes for...

Pleasure suffused her and she snuggled deeper into his arms, her heart clenching when he tightened his hold on her. After a while his breathing slowed and his hold relaxed. Convinced he slept, she whispered,...

Ah, does my princess now want what I offer?

I intend to have you, Maggie, in every way a man can have a woman. I want your hand in mine while we dance. I want you laughing beside me in the theater. I want...

And if you ever – and I do mean ever – try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.

And then you realize one day that you can’t remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can’t remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven’t thought of her...

Lord Randall barreled inside, brandishing his cane in Drew’s face.”You beggarly knave, I was told this marriage was in name only! Who gave you permission to consummate the vows?””Theodore Hopkin, governor of this colony, representative...

I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him...

You’re warning me off. There’s no need, I assure you. At this moment in time, my only ambition is to get myself through the day —” He broke off, realising too late what he’d admitted,...

Should I have brought my diploma?

Ne boji se onaj čija je duša čista i onaj čija su djela pravda i pravica.

Bori se oružjem kojim te napadaju. Lukavost se izbija lukavošću.

What have I done to her?” Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. “What the devil did she do to me?

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be…[he kisses her]…MINE…

Pain is in the mind. And, in my mind, ma chérie … I was withyou.

He rose up like a languid god after devouring a bountiful feast.

Rolling onto his side, he drew her close. “Sleep, milady. I will keep you warm tonight, and safe.” He pulled the blanket over her, wrapping one arm around her waist as he settled beside her...

What have you to trade for my silence?” …He opened his mouth to beckon the men, but Eleri moved like lightning. With her right arm restrained, she couldn’t cut him. However, her weapon of choice...

Yes, yes. My eyes are like the sea or the sky or some such nonsense,” she quipped with a laugh, the lilting sound like the finest music, better than anything he could ever play.

Lord Carradice managed to look wicked, smug, and saintly, all at the same time.

John alzò di riflesso gli occhi a quelle parole, una luce fiera e innamorata li animava. Non si sentiva più smarrito: per la prima volta in tanto tempo, aveva compreso d’aver incontrato il comandante del...

If I die,” he whispered in the dark, “dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

Just so. It came to my attention earlier today that you had canceled the seventy-fifth annual Christmas Eve ball. I would have called upon you immediately, but I’m afraid a prior engagement tied my hands...

Among other places, but then I’d help you remove them.

We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all...

Strahovito je živjeti razumnom čovjeku u ovo doba kad je zloća podivljala, a dobrota poludjela.

Savjest poštenih uvijek spava spokojno.

Što u ustima i u srcu, neka bude i na djelu. Samo od riječi i od srca još uvijek malo koristi.

Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.

She told him … how her heart had fairly skipped a beat when she’d seen him standing in the middle of the road dressed as a true Highland warrior.”If I hadna been in love wi’...

I’ve told you before, ma chérie, love is not about submission. It is the willingness to give of yourself. That is a great power and gift, if you allow yourself to wield it.

Rule three? You mean there’s more?

As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.

Sleep well in my arms tonight, love, but know that we must come to an understanding of sorts–for I be a full-blooded male as this fire in my loins doth remind me–and unfortunately, not the...

To Jane’s horror, he unfolded her paper and read aloud. “Possible Candidates as Lovers.

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

She’s elegant,” Olivia stated. “I would kill to have her figure.””Really?””Of course. I have always wished to look precisely like her. Though obviously, not enough to avoid food,” she added.”That’s madness. You have everything she...

There’s no need for chains. I can still take you until you’re begging for more.

Let me give you one piece of advice. Do not get between a woman and her cause.

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

This was getting bloody ridiculous, he thought savagely. If she became any more adorable, endearing, or delectable, something was going to get broken.Most likely his heart.

Pravda ne da svoje djece, a svaki pravednik krvno je čedo pravednosti.

Svakog dušmanina lakše se riješiti i bolje s njime voditi borbu nego s domaćom izdajicom. Uvijek je bilo tako i ostat će. Lakše je baciti preko praga nasilnika koji ti provali u kuću nego onoga...

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick...

It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse

[Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]”My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin’ kale back in Germany!

We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.

You have become everything to me.

Her eyes narrowed with feigned disgust. “I cannot walk backwards anymore! I’m too afraid you’ll run me into something.”He released one of her hands and reached around her, to cup her firm behind. “Trust me....