Quotes from Madeline Hunter

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

Stop thinking like a madman, or you will end up acting like an ass.

I hope you found pleasure in it at least. I have always thought impulsive pleasure was the best kind.

With her honey hair and perfect posture, she had that porcelain-doll fragility that most men wanted...as if she might shatter if someone so much as touched her. In his youth, he'd been certain he wanted that sort of woman: the kind he could protect, the kind that made him feel like a man. But years on the battlefield had taught him to appreciate a woman who could stand at his side and hold her own with enemy, who has some flesh on her bones and some fire in her eyes.

Castleford looked up lazily. He turned his gaze on Summerhays. "What is wrong with him, to get him all puffed up like he holds a bad wind that needs farting?" "Fate. Passion. The stupidity of life." Castleford drank some coffee. "In other words, he has fallen in love.

Men get lazy when life is too easy. Good minds go slack and good bodies get fat. Nine out of ten men in the ton have achieved nothing but the pursuit of pleasure.

If you do not flirt, how will you manage this marriage you anticipate making next season?" "I expect I will dance with her at balls a few times, call on her a few times, then propose." "How dreadful you make it sound. Poor girl." "Dreadful? Poor girl? She will be a duchess. Her family will be delirious with joy.

don't forget the value of who you are no matter what kind of hat you are wearing.

I should remember that I be just as worthy now as I will be when this is done.

Sometimes events conspire to force one to do what should be done.

Really, the man was not to be borne. Here she was, doing a good deed by tolerating him, and he had the effrontery to almost insult her outright.

Actually, should you ever decide to subject me to this, I think..." "You think what?" "I think that I would probably buy you a diamond necklace the next day

She held up her hands. "Stop, please. Allow me to hear one shocking sentence at a time.

He laughed lightly, but his eyes told another story. Ambury could smile ever so amiably while the daggers within his wit sliced one to shreds.

They stood like that, his embrace still holding her, for ten seconds at most, during which she ignored the truth of the moment and allowed herself to savor the illusion of being cared for.

one of the joys of marriage is that one can be bad again.

Hypocrites can be very pious

Evidently it was very easy to fall if one had already fallen.

I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.

I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry. ---Addis de Valence

Utter ruin provokes soul-searching in even the least reflective of men.