Quotes from Victoria Alexander

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before.

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

I say seduce her, seduce her tonight. Break the door down if you have to. Tell her all those things you said to me about her. You will love her more tomorrow than today and how you want to die with her hand in yours–which is an excellent line, by the way, that I fully intend to borrow when the time comes.

Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all

It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility." Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior.

Yes, well, there's something to be said for damsels who need rescuing." Thomas's gaze strayed back to Marianne. She would never need rescuing. And wasn't there something to be said for that as well?

Adventure, my dear, is as much a state of mind as anything else. One can travel the world and never find the excitement to be found within arm's reach. Remain true to yourself, but understand happiness may not always be found in the plans we have laid out for ourselves, but rather in the unforeseen turns life takes us. Do not close your mind, or your heart, to the unexpected twists of life. It is those unexpected paths that could well lead to the greatest adventures of all.

An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.

My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.

Her heart leapt, which made no sense at all. This was not to be an affair of the heart. There would be affection certainly, but nothing more. Apparently her heart wasn't aware of her plans. Odd, she'd never known it to be rebellious before.

Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.

Then I shall be devastated. My heart will be crushed as thoroughly as dust beneath your feet". "Oh, we can't have that". Her eyes widened in an innocent manner he didn't believe for a moment. "I quite detest dust".

My father once told me love is magic, sir.

Women, intelligent or not, were rarely reasonable.

No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

You want to kiss me now,Matthew. I can see it in the look in your eyes." "I want to do considerably more than kiss you." He grinned wickedly. "And that too you should see in my eyes.

the only way to become the man I was always supposed to become was to serve a higher cause than myself.' 'You served it with your life, and, in some ways mine as well.