Quotes from Loretta Chase

Yes, he answered silently. He wanted help. He wanted help being born over again and coming out right this time.

Venice she is like the beautiful cortigiana—the courtesan—who has"—Zeggio frowned, searching for the phrase he wanted—"dropped on the hours of trouble." "Fallen on hard times," James said. "Fallen on hard times," Zeggio repeated. He murmured the phrase to himself a few times. "I see. The same but not the same.

Do you remember little Zoe Octavia Lexham?' he said. His aunt cast her pale blue gaze in the direction of the great chandelier, as though that was where she kept her memory. 'Zoe Octavia,' she said.

If he had been an ancient Egyptian, it was her image he'd have painted on the walls of his tomb, so that he could look at her for all eternity. Earl of Lisle, Last Night Scandal

They believe Miles can read it," she said. "Good grief. They must be completely illiterate--or desperately gullible--or--" "French," said Mr Carsington.

rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

They had nothing. He wanted to weep. She makes men cry, Morris had said. Maybe they ought to.

Come," he coaxed, "tell me a murderous, wicked thought." She scowled at her shoe. "I have wanted to strangle my papa," she muttered. "Egad! Patricide. Well, that's a relief," said he with a grin. "I thought I was the only one.

Alistair did his best to soothe her while he imagined himself leaping across the table, scooping Miss Oldridge out of her chair, and tossing her out of the nearest window.

She pulled away and was alarmed to find herself still weak-kneed. Embarrassed, she glared at him. "You tricked me!" "On the contrary, you tricked me. You are very deceitful. Never once have you hinted that you were passionate. You were most unsporting to take me unawares. I might have fainted.

The two children whose parents had been cheated and taken advantage of while they only tried to live decent lives.

The ton will be all atwitter about last night

Holding a large object aloft, she went after him, and the fellow ran. Then something struck the back of Rupert's head. The world went black with flashing lights. The ground opened up under his feet, and down he went.

If you were a man, I'd challenge you to a duel," she said. "If you were a man I'd shoot you happily.

Perhaps he will say, 'That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice given up, I wonder?

Što te onda zadržava ovdje? upitao je sebe. Koja te je mo?na sila ovamo dovukla, da glupavo zuriš poput mjese?inom o?aranog šteneta u ku?u samo zato jer je ona unutra? I koji su te to lanci držali ovdje, u iš?ekivanju da je samo na?as vidiš? Dodir. Poljubac. To je odvratno, rekao je sebi. I bilo je, ali bilo je istina, i on je to mrzio i mrzio je nju jer je to u?inila istinom.

Miss, I'm sure lots of women think of running away when men disappoint us. But if all of us was to actually do that, there wouldn't be a woman left in London.

Había aprendido a evitar la tentación porque dudada de tener la fuerza necesaria para resistirla. Dejar que la curiosidad se transformara en fascinación sería el primer paso hacia la ruina

hacía tiempo que había comprendido que el amor era traicionero. Podía transformar el mundo de cielo en infierno en un instante, y al instante seguiente volver a tranformarlo en sentido contrário, y asi ad infinitum.

Adan necesitó a alguien, sin duda. Jamais habría tenido el coraje de comerse esa manzana él solito. Eva tendría que habérsela comido sin decirle nada e dejarlo andar errante como un asno por el Edén, un bruto ignorante idéntico a los otros brutos que lo rodeaban. el muy idiota ni siquera sabía que estaba desnudo. Y quem diablos cosió esos taparraboos de hojas de figuera, te pregunto? Él no habrá sido, de eso puede estar seguro.

Pomislila je da razumije kakva je to želja bila: privla?nost, mo?no magnetsko strujanje izme?u muškarca i žene, koje ih privla?i bliže jedno drugome. Mislila je da razumije požudu: glad, žudnju. No?u bi bila grozni?ava, snivaju?i o njemu, i nemirna i živ?ana danju, razmišljaju?i o njemu. Nazvala je to životinjskom privla?noš?u, primitivnom, ludom.

Ele é homem – disse Leonie. – O que foi que Byron disse sobre homens e mulheres apaixonados? (…) – "Na vida do homem, o amor é uma coisa à parte; na da mulher, é toda a vida" – citou ele.

Moj, pomislila je, i ta je pomisao bila bolna, gorkoslatka, misao nade i o?aja u jednome. Bio je njezin imenom, i po crkvenom i po svjetovnom zakonu. Ali nijedan ga zakon nije mogao u?initi istinski, potpuno njezinim. Za to ?e se trebati dugo i tvrdokorno boriti.

Razum joj je govorio da za njegovo ponašanje mora postojati nekakav glup, tipi?no muški razlog koji ?e ona prije ili kasnije razumijeti, i da ?e se pokazati kako sve to nije imalo nikakve veze s pokušajem da joj povrijedi osje?aje, ili da u?ini da se osjeti neželjenom, ili poduzme da je obuzmu bilo kakve druge mra?ne primisli kakve je trenuta?no proživljavala.