Quotes from Eloisa James

You could seduce a saint with that smile.

Informality is the vice of the masses.

It look as if Kate was saying goodbye to Henry and Leo, but that couldn't be. She couldn't be leaving... he had to see her tomorrow morning, see her one more time.

The day I stop looking for you, the day I stop waiting for you, will be the day that I die, he said, meeting her eyes. And then I'll just wait for you to join me again.

But a first choice is not always the right choice.

In the near distance he could hear the trundling sound of carriage wheels starting down the gravel drive.

Meninas bonitas em contos de fadas são tão banais como seixos na praia.

She had never before understood that loneliness doesn't come from nowhere. It follows moments in which one's own poverty was exposed. Not lack of money, but lack of love.

Don't you mean to lecture me on the evils of illicit relationships?' 'No. I am quite certain you are aware of the disagreeable consequences if the /ton/ were to discover your activities. But I have found that occasionally a small peccadillo that harms no one can be conducive to a cheerful disposition.

You never wore that blue gown for a lover?' 'Absolutely not!' She felt a little indignant at the very idea. 'You think I have a wardrobe just to satisfy my illicit desires? My maid took off its underskirt because she wanted to make sure you found me desirous.

He took one step forward, thinking to run after the carriage, to run mad, madder than he already was.

I used to cry so much as a girl," Yasmin told him, managing a wry smile. "But these days I simply walk through it." "As do I," her grandfather said. "As do I. That might be the definition of maturity, dear.

He smelled like the soap she bought for guests. It made her happy, as if she owned a small part of him. As if she had changed him.

You know I don't know a chestnut from a conker.' [...] 'A Chestnut is a conker

Aggravation marched up her spine like a troop of perfectly dressed soldiers.

It's not just that,' she said, trying to explain in a way he would understand. 'My life - any lady's life - is made up of morning calls, and musicales, and balls. I would be thrown out of society. No one would receive me or send invitations. That's what it means to be ruined.

Why are girls so mean to each other?

After a hard day in the fields, his men would strip naked and plunge into the bitterly cold loch, he among them. Even at eighteen, he could see his ancestors had bequeathed him more than a castle.

Until, one day, she'd just . . . stopped. Not because the pain of losing him and the dream she'd carried for them had died, but because she'd learned that it was all right to live with pain and to use it. And in that, she'd found peace.

night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

Depend upon it, her mother's voice said sternly in her memory, no prudent man will ever accept a wife who knows more than himself.

By all accounts Rafe's life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and hadn't taken that hat off since.

If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.

She gave a little scream. "You oughtn't to creep up on a person!" He smiled down at her. "You'll have to get used to me following you out of rooms. If you are determined to be exasperated with me, and I am determined to be with you, I shall probably become very familiar with your defiant back leading the way to a door." That was so foolish that she found herself nearly smiling.