Quotes from Sherry Thomas

That which is sown is not always begotten; but that which is begotten always is sown.

You've changed, Fitz.' 'It's been eight years. Everyone changes.' 'I haven't changed.' The insight came to him like a match flaring. 'I can see how you've tried to remain the same. But no, you have changed, too. Once you thrilled to new horizons. Now all you want is to live in a monument to the way things might have been.

He made her human—or as human as she was capable of being. And being human was possibly her least favorite aspect of life.

Into many lives a little irregularity must fall.

A house that Charlotte thought to be "slightly extravagant"? Charlotte, who had never met a garish color combination she didn't immediately wish to add to her own wardrobe?

He walked to the grandfather clock and pretended to check the time on his watch, when he wanted to grab the poker next to the grate and smash everything in the room. The children they were going to have. The life they were going to share. Everything slashed and burned in a vicious assault by reality. And her, oblivious to his pain, throwing away their happiness as if it were last week's bread.

Someone loved this girl, this utterly useless girl, loved her enough to go on wooing her, even though she was being paraded before all of Europe for takers. A moment of stark despair descended upon her that she would never know such love, that she would go through life sustained only by her facade of invincibility. Then she came to her senses. Love was for fools. Gigi Rowland was many things, but she was never a fool.

He kissed the shell of her ear. "Then let me tell you this: I live for you and you alone.

Charlotte couldn't help laughing. "My dear lady, I feared to impose on your kindness. I see now that I needn't have worried. You are a shark!" Mrs. Watson preened a little, evidently pleased by Charlotte's observation. "A shark with a good nose for money in the water but, let's say, rather soft teeth.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But now you've become less brittle.

For a journey like theirs, Love was the only thing that would make him strong enough.

She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar's face.

How do you find the grace to face the shadows?

And to all of the challenges and rewards of my new life.

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage

She picked up her spoon, gathered the last bit of trifle from her bowl, and consumed it with her characteristic mixture of gourmandise and wistfulness.

But I expect you to have vacated your post before the end of the year." The dead silence burned. He stared empty-eyed at the rain. Remember this. This was what happened when he chose to indulge himself at her expense. It was she who lost her position, her home, and her hard-won proximity to her son.

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here." Windham

Do you leave as a ship sailing out of harbour? Do you return as rain to the earth? Will I guide you in the Beyond, if I hold aloft the brightest light here on Earth?

sincere. "I thought you wouldn't want anything to do with me once the sun rose." "You were right. I wouldn't have—if only I knew. And that was why you hid it from me, wasn't it? You wanted to preserve an illusion. You knew I wouldn't touch Verity Durant with a ten-foot pole, so you didn't give me a chance to repudiate her. Then you took that illusion home and left me to pick up the pieces.

It might be delusional on mu part to hope my actions will matter, but better that than sitting back in the belief that they won't. Not trying is the surest way of never making a difference.

La noche que naciste, las estrellas cayeron. El día que nos conocimos, cayo un rayo. Mi presente, mi futuro. Mi esperanza, mi plegaria, mi destino,

Alas, would that it were as easy to appease the heart as it is to satisfy the stomach.