Quotes from Eloisa James

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all.

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

I love you, he said, his voice catching. When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar .

I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it. He sounds like a dock. Lord Sundron put in. Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning, Linnet said a dock might be just the thing for me.

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

Yes Leopold, Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.

Where did you go to school?" Piers inquired. "Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.