Quotes from Laura Lee Guhrke

He walked to Brooks's, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But even at his club, surrounded by all the trappings of the honorable British gentleman, he still longed for the forbidden fruit; he still hungered for the hot, sweet kisses of an Italian girl.

Madness comes to us all. Even you.

Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.

Marriage is a partnership Phillip, not a feudal kingdom. Until you can accept that I have the right to dictate the course of my on life, I will not marry you. Until you can accept my wishes and my opinions are just worthy of consideration as yours, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that what I would give up to be your wife is just as important as what you offer in exchange, I will not marry you.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more. Robert Herrick, 1648

reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

I suppose you have already informed God that you will require at least three sons to ensure the Tremore line?

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.

We're your friends. Our job is to tease you mercilessly about your foibles, rag you about your upright, honorable nature, and point out to you when you're being a complete dolt.

I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind.

Olivia watched him through a blur of tears, despising the futility of it. For there was nothing she could say to comfort a man whose family was long dead; there was no balm to heal wounds that scored a man's soul; and there was no way to make a man believe in the ties that bind.

The point is, all my life I've hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.

came to her, not the athletic, graceful leopard of the ballroom at Hanford House but her very own wounded animal. Her husband. Her lover. Her best friend.

He turned out the lamp and left the room, his body in agony. Sometimes, it was absolute hell to be a gentleman.

The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.

Oh, that anything could feel like this. It was wicked and wanton. It was wonderful. That Philip, whom she always thought so proper, should know of such things as this. It amazed her.

He could feel the only woman he had ever wanted slipping away for the third time, and he knew that this time, the pain of losing her would annihilate her.

I shouldn't wish to be a tease. To... lead you on." He smiled. "That's my look-out, not yours." She considered that, doubtfully. "There are some men who would disagree." His smile vanished. "Then they are worthless curs, not men.

But I do know about fear. I've faced it, more than once. That's what one has to do with fear, by the way. Face it and defeat it because you can't ever run far enough or fast enough to escape from it.

If Flynn's as you say, the boy—Simon, you called him?—Simon should be all too happy to come away with us. I've no ill will toward him." "You might remember Simon's the one who gave you a great clout on the head," she said. David waved it away. "And why shouldn't he? He likely thought I was about to maul your unconscious person.

Neamh," he murmered. '"Tis Neamh, you are, Olivia.

I cared," he said behind her. "But as I said, we should never have been friends. Friendship is not possible between a marquess and the daughter of the family chef. That is the world we live in." She forced herself to look at him over her shoulder. "No, Phillip. That's the world you live in.