Quotes from Laura Lee Guhrke

He tilted her face upward as if he meant to kiss her. Shocked, Maria resisted, glancing toward the people at the table, some of them are smiling, some disapproving, some thoroughly appalled. She looked back at him, doubtful. "Does a gentleman kiss a woman in front of other people?" He tilted her head back. "This one does," he said and captured her lips with his.

Fading into the wallpaper was so much safer than being noticed.

Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a man straight to hell.

Viola was just as passionate in her rage as she was in her desire, just as stubborn in hate as she had been in love.

I never understood until this happened to me was that if one's always going to new places, one never stops long enough to see the beauty in the old places.