Quotes from Loretta Chase

I am not insane, he said. A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.

He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. I don't see how matters could become worse, he muttered. I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady. Her head jerked up. Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful.

You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

Thank you, Dain, she said. I should like that very much. I've never seen a proper wrestling match before. I daresay it will be a novel experience all round, he said, gravely eyeing her up and down. I can't wait to see Sherburne's face when I arrive with my lady wife in tow. There, you see? she said, unoffended. I told you there were other benefits to having a wife. I can come in very handy when you wish to shock your friends.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

Dain wasn't certain what exactly was wrong with her, but he had no doubt that something was. He was Lord Beelzebub, wasn't he? She was supposed to faint, or recoil in horrified revulsion at the very least. Yet she had gazed at him as bold as brass, and it had seemed for a moment as though the creature were actually flirting with him.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

Go away," he said. "Do you know you've almost no clothes on?" "Never mind. I need—" "Never mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can 'never mind.' A nearly naked woman isn't one of them.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's glove. He'd committed salacious acts beyond number. He'd never before felt so depraved as he did now, as the last pearl came free and he drew the soft kid down, baring her wrist, and his dark fingers grazed the delicate skin he'd exposed.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Sognavo di te. I've dreamed of you. Ti desideravo nelle mia braccia dal primo momento che ti vedi. I've wanted you in my arms since the moment I met you. Ho bisogno di te. I need you

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

Any idea what she said, Dain?" "Yes." "What was it?" "Men are ignorant brutes." "You sure?" "Quite.