Quotes from Eloisa James

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

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.

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.