Quotes from Eloisa James

I know he looks like a cherub, but don't be fooled, Strange.' 'What do you mean?' 'He's a hardened reprobate. Plays the innocent because it pulls the ladies. Wait till you see him with them. They fall over him screaming. Fall backwards, really. He's a nice lad, though, and doesn't take advantage.

Just at the moment, her life seemed oddly thin

I'm not afraid because I love you and I will always love you. always. Your love stands between me and fear.

A gentleman probably would have risen to help, but James didn't feel like a gentleman. He felt like a bloodthirsty ex-pirate with blue balls.

Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger.

Jemma got up and perched on the arm of Isidore's chair. "Marriage is a great destroyer of logic, but I do think it's a benefit to begin with a sane husband.

Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.

Husbands have tender egos, even if they garner their compliments from unlikely places.

she knew that once she had the plot, she could write the book fairly quickly.

I don't know why you're crying, Count. I lost closer friends than you when I was deloused!

your present is your future.' I choose not to tarnish what may come.

They were looking for lovable women. Stella would be the first to admit that she failed on that front. She was too awkward, too outspoken, too argumentative. Too peculiar.

I will find a man who adores me, or I'll buy a house next to a bookstore and live happily by myself," she concluded, shaking out her skirts.

Life is so much easier if we get these little truths out of the way, don't you think?

She wandered out for a walk. It was the kind of day that pretends spring has come, even though it hasn't. The air smelled sweet, and the sun was shining. A blackthorn tree in the garden had already bloomed and was scattering seeds everywhere, like a child feeding birds in a dizzying circle.

Grace had so many complexities, so many layers and feelings, and thoughts ... he would happily spend his life trying to unwrap her. Thinking about it, he tore a strip off the hem of her gown. 'What on earth are you going to do with that?' Without answering, he put a knee forward onto the bed, making certain he knew precisely where she was. The last thing he wanted was to land on her like a felled tree.

She'd spent her entire life playing second fiddle to perfection. She'd spent her life never being loved for being herself. She'd be damned if she accepted a lifetime of the same.

My eyes would have told you everything you wanted to know in the parlor ... You would never have spouted that drivel about how I felt about Lily if you could have seen my eyes. Never.

Better a happy spinster than an unhappy duchess.

Don't make me Romeo

The sky was a high, pale blue, like faded linen hung in the sun ... Under the alders were bluebells, dark blue, blue flowers hanging their little heads from the beauty of their blossoms.

Come, tears, confound,' he cried. 'Out, sword, and wound the left breast of Pyramus. Ay, that left breast where his heart doth hop.

The year Grace turned fourteen, Colin walked through the door in a uniform, and her heart gave one big thump and never beat exactly the same way again.

I don't just want to kiss you, Stella. I want to ravish you.