He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn’t have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he...

Hang you, DeVere! She’s a close friend, nothing more.” He furrowed his brow once again. “Though I do fear of late that she entertains some…expectations.””You think the young widow may aspire to quite another surrogate...

Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I’ll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.

It gives me charge of your life.

Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.

Dün gece senin yatağındaydım!” diye suçladı Amanda,gözleri kederle büyümüştü.”Dün gece beni defalarca öptün.Sevgili olduğumuzu sanıyordum.”Cliff’in yüzü bembeyaz kesildi. Konuşmakta zorlanıyordu. “Biz sevgili değiliz. Dün gece bir hataydı. Bir daha asla olmayacak. Sen hala bakiresin.””Kısmen!” Genç...

Miss Mayhew, have you ever wondered how afreehold farmer got to be in such a fine place?

You next,” he said. “Out of those clothes and into bed.”She nodded but didn’t move from Sally’s side. The thought of undressing exhausted her. Where would she find the strength such a task would require?”I’m...

I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

His eyes darkened. His hands slid up to her shoulders. She leaned into him as he pulled her towards him. It started so gently. Soft. Delicate. Celeste leant closer. The kiss deepened. she could feel...

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.

Na prljavom se ruhu ne raspoznaje ni mrlja, na čistom se razabire svaka kap kiše.

Svi hoće u visine. Želudac se penje u srce, jetrica u salo, poštenje u džepove, samo je pamet prosjakinja, a nitko joj ne dobacuje ni prebijenog groša.

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.

You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France . . . but for yourself.

Griff had never been the fanciful sort, even as a boy. When he was with Pauline, the world was different. She forced him to see things through fresh eyes. Suddenly his library was the eighth...

She frowned at him. “Not every man thinks constantly of… of…”Darach grinned. “Aye, they do, demoiselle. Every man, from the time he is about ten until the day he dies, thinks frequently of that.

Lulled into complacency, one of the brigands’ hands loosened on his arm, and Warren had his chance. Breaking free, he grabbed a handful of Red’s braids and tangled his fingers in the silky plaited coils....

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

I was shy,” said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side.

Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and no natural ability? As far as he could tell there had been no...

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?” he demanded. No, I thought. I won’t. I will not. But I did. “Very carefully,” I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how...

I did bring a bowl of water, in case you wished to blend with the masses.

He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

Celeste.” Jack grinned. “How every appropriate. An angel sent from heaven to relieve my boredom.””An artist sent from France to paint your brother’s estate,” she retorted.”Touché’. In that case we should get down to business.

Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing,” he said, “It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if...

Zle ljude uvijek veseli kad mogu širiti zle vijesti o dobrima. A više puta i prijatelji uživaju slušati zlo o svojim znancima, naročito ako ih je priroda obdarila kakvim prednostima.

Da sam ja car radio bih ovo: Nastupajući na prijestolje okrunio bih se svim krunama koje bi mi donijeli. Prisegao bih na sve ustave koje bi mi predložili. Potvrdio bih sve privilegije što ih ima...

You don’t have to say a thing except yes. You don’t have to do anything, either, I’m quite willing to plan it all.” “You?””Yes me.””You’d plan all of it? Even the wedding?””Why not?””You don’t even...

Have you always been this skilled with women?” – Joseph to Iain

So when I saw you lying in the shed there, I thought that even God couldn’t be that cruel. You were everything I ever asked for – so maybe you could also be the love...

She ate it and cried.Soon, he put the melting ice cream away.”Shura,” Tatiana whispered, “darling, forget what should have been. Remember all that was.””Tatiasha, babe,” Alexander whispered, coming back to bed to be covered, “my...

They should put their clothes on if they could find them which might be difficult in the darkness.He decided that could wait until dawn.

Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone...

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he’s come to collect on the debt.

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to...

Erős karok ölelték át a derekát, szilárdan tartották. Hálásan dőlt a kemény mellkasnak.– Mi történt? – ismerte fel Lord Saint-Germain mély hangját.– Nem tudom – felelte Alexandreia nyilvánvalóan ismét a sírás határán. – Mi csak...

simple.

The sun glanced off a long, wicked looking knife in the Comanche’s grip. At least Cash wouldn’t have long to mourn. The other Indians held similar weapons, but they hung back as their leader knelt...

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

Da nema kukolja, rodila bi čista pšenica.

Osloni se na me, draga, čitav svoj život sretno ću nositi taj dragi teret!

Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there. The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only by dim shafts of light from the sanctuary....

I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.

Though his countenance was solemn, there was a glint of amusement in his eyes. “Major MacKinnon, won’t you join us?””But, my lord, he is clad in outlawed rebel attire. The Dress Act expressly forbids–“”I am...

I’m not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel.””Why not? Because I’m a woman?””No, because I’ve seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You’d shoot me dead where I stood.

Why, Nick, I’d have thought it obvious. I’ll just have to ruin her.”-A BREACH OF PROMISE

She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real.