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....

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

A woman must find a husband, otherwise she is at the mercy of the world. If she waits for love and it never arrives, what is to become of her? I consented to Edward’s proposal...

He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole...

I want a man that will do what he needs to do to take care of his family. I will give that man every ounce of love and support I have to give. I will...

Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to kick his hand.”Is she like a puppy?”Constance choked. “What!”He looked up. “Will she...

And then she fell into his arms. It was what he’d dreamed of on sleepless nights, holding her, feeling the press of her breasts to his chest, the flare of her hips in his hands....

…People – the ones who are left behind – desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them.

Women. You’ll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he’s been struck by Cupid’s arrow when in reality, he’s digesting a bad turnip.

Tko se laća sile, nije u pravu.

Riječi nisu dokazi. Tko osjeća, zna dokazati i djelima.

Tell them I have the headache–no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

Don’t you understand brother? I want to find a love…that will free me from this love…

Slightly inconvenienced yet decidedly more powerful, I think.

He’d missed matching wits with her. “Shall we duel with our lips?” “You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.

She clenched her fists. “I believe, milord, that I have endured my full limit of male tyranny.” “I am afraid, milady, that you will have to become accustomed to it. It is the way of...

Husband-hunting. Always a rousing sport. I suppose you go there dressed to kill.””No, indeed. What good is a dead husband?” She smiled airily. “I go dressed to maim only.

He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with a more honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he...

******”Nasıl istersen sevgilim.””Bana Charlotte diye hitap etmeni tercih ederim. ‘Sevgilim’, ‘Düşes Hanımefendileri’ ve hatta ‘Düşes’ diye bile değil. Sadece Charlotte.””Ah. Pekala. Eğer yine de sen bana Phillip dışında, başka bir şekilde hitap etmek istersen, bilmeni...

Benjamin non gli stava sorridendo solo con le labbra, ma anche con gli occhi, le braccia e tutto il resto del corpo. Il capitano era lì ed era venuto per lui, pronto ad accoglierlo con...

Don’t stop now,” he whispered.

Was it your journal?” he pressed. He wondered if she kept a diary as well . . . and what she might write about him. He hoped something scandalous. He’d love to make it come...

It was a struggle to not fall in love with a man who was determined to be decent to her when what she sought was indulgence of her wanton nature.Her recently discovered, very frustrated wanton...

…Ethan, but I’m certainly not the type of woman to just go home with two men whether I know them or not. It would be highly inappropriate, not to mention stupid.””And you’re not stupid.””Not as...

Tko se odviše nada, mnogo gubi. Manje nade donosi više!

Od onog časa kad ste me vi počeli mrziti, ja sam vas počeo ljubiti. (…) Sav moj život od onog časa bio je prazan, nikad mi srce nije u ljubavi zadrhtalo, nikad propatilo, nikad žena...

Sreća mora doći. Sunce na nebu skrivaju oblaci i javljaju olujama da i ljudi strepe, ali (…) sunce je tamo iza oblaka! Ono mora izaći na čistinu. Mora, samo čekaj i vjeruj da dolazi…

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I’ve littered the ground wi’ the corpses of men like you.”Iain raised his blade and smiled. “You’ve never met a man like me.

Would that be such a difficult task to perform?”Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.

She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed to hear that word, yet had never known the hope, or...

You have not known very many men.””I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.

Are you quite through with your lurid comments and wicked amusements?””Hardly, my dear, this is just the beginning. You may not be eager now, but I shall melt that ice of yours yet. I always...

Count this as a mere taste, sweetheart, of all the pleasure I can give you. Marry me and let me show you more. Be mine, and I’ll take you on a journey the likes of...

The softness of her touch, the emerald eyes gazing into his when they held hands and circled, attacked his defenses and flung them aside as if he were a helpless lad. If she’d come at...

I’m fat,” she blurted out. “You are not fat. You’re the most beautiful, voluptuous woman I know.” His eyes moved down her body, deliberately, slowly, then back up to her face. What she saw in...

Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he’s been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would...

Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of agood party!

Oh! my dearest love, why are our pleasures so short and so interrupted? How long is this to last?Know you, my best Mary, that I feel myself, in your absence, almost degraded to the level...

Darling love… you are.

Samo zlo mora da dršće. Tko je od vas čista srca, taj nema više straha u sebi ni od koga.

Dosta nam je bratskog zagrljaja u kojemu nikad nisi siguran da te brat neće zagušiti.

Do I perceive a softening in your heart for me, damoiselle?” He laughed at her scowl. “Beware maid. I will tell you true. After you will come another and then another. There are no strings...

He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse...