“love is quite like reading, i expect. once you know how, you can’t ever imagine not doing it.”
— kerrigan byrne, the highwayman

“that was, perhaps, the most unfeeling proposal she could imagine. the man was cynical, insensitive, condescending, rude.
and she was definitely going to marry him.”
— tessa dare, the duchess deal

“is that so.” he drew closer. “and how are you planning to change the world, miss mountbatten?” “I couldn’t tell you, mr. reynaud. at the moment, i’m too busy changing the sky.”
— tessa dare, the governess game

“she had a lifelong habit of extending care to animals too wild or frightened to accept it—which made her the bravest kind of fool. gabe wanted to kiss each and every one of those healed wounds—which made him just an ordinary fool.”
— tessa dare, the wallflower wager

“this world is all sin, felicity, and I am the worst of it.”
- sarah maclean, wicked and the wallflower

“he didn’t send me anywhere. i am the heroine of my own play, sir.”
— sarah maclean, brazen and the beast

“gabriel smiled absently and gave a slight shake of his head. “am i staring? forgive me. it’s only that i adore the way you laugh.”
— lisa kleypas, devil in spring

“sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”
— lisa kleypas, devil in winter

“i’m not sure you have any more need of me in st. giles, but you take me with you still. why?
“why do you think?”
“I don't know.”
“don’t you? he leaned closer to her and repeated low, “don’t you?”
— elizabeth hoyt, wicked intentions

“ye’ve bewitched and bespelled me, my sweet Silence, didn’t ye know?”
— elizabeth hoyt, scandalous desires