Quotes from Eloisa James

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.

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

I woke up this morning," Gabriel said, "thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don't realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man's usual inclination in the morning.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Piers took a leisurely look at Linnet. There was the beauty, sure enough. But it didn't detract from the intelligence in her eyes. And in his opinion the slightly cynical lilt in her voice just made her all the more beautiful, as if Aphrodite had been crossed with Athena.

You're the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

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

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

I did it," Gabriel said, conversationally. "I met the woman, the only woman for me. I met her, and now . . . I'm going to meet my wife.

Give me one last time," he begged. "Please, please. I beg you." "I—" She stopped and started again. "I'm afraid, Gabriel. You'll break my heart." "Mine is already broken.

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.

Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.

Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.' 'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

Gabriel looked up at her from under thick eyelashes. "Will you please grope me under the table, Kate mine?

It was a stupid thing to hold onto, but when one doesn't have much to celebrate in the way of physical attributes, ankles matter.

They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.

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