Quotes from Loretta Chase

His boots were immaculate. His valet had polished them to such a fearsome brilliance, the dust of London's streets could only stagger away, blinded.

I can take a joke," she said. "I've married you, haven't I?

E pensou o mesmo naquele momento, porque os sentimentos perturbadores permaneciam ali, sob o bolso do peito do colete, onde ele guardava um toco de lápis que ela havia deixado para trás na noite anterior.

viscerally, what Genevieve felt, and it wasn't at all amusing.

Keeping the secret was going to be more difficult than Rupert could have foreseen. Every time she met a hieroglyph, she'd act like this: vibrating like a tuning fork, the gigantic brain bubbling over and spilling out its secrets: Greek and Latin and Coptic and names of scholars and who believed what and this alphabet versus that one and phonetic interpretations versus symbolic ones.

The man who fails, my learned friend, is the man who dies.

Looking at a man as though he was something the horse left behind isn't the way to elicit confidences.

There was the deep blue sea of her eyes, and there was he, wanting to drown.

An adult should not be forced into marriage as a child is forced to eat his peas. Peas are only part of a meal. Marriage is a life's work.

I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.

And so, as the stars came out, Miles took up his basket and made his way in the moonlight to the river, to the place where he'd hidden the little boat. It was gone. No great surprise, really. The region was notorious. Why shouldn't someone steal his boat? He'd return the favor and steal someone else's. Tomorrow. Tonight, though, he wanted a proper dinner. He set about fashioning a fishing line.

The beasts tossed their heads and answered with evil horsey laughter.

I'm going now," he said. "This is much too shocking. I need to—drink, I believe. Or fight. Something. I love you. That's what it is. That's what's happened. Yes.

You've the Devil's own tongue, and all his arts, I'm sure. You're like the bad angel, whispering in my ear — and I always listen.

Gubim je, pomislio je i ruka mu je nagonski krenula da je dosegne i povu?e je natrag. Ali umjesto toga je posegnuo za loncem za kavu. Napunio je sebi šalicu i bespomo?no zurio u tamnu teku?inu i u njoj vidio svoju crnu budu?nost jer joj nije bio u stanju dati ono što je željela.

Coward" he said softly. She stopped and turned and marched back to him. She dropped her reticule, grasped his neckcloth, cupped his face, dragged his mouth to hers, and kissed him.

Dain could not decide what to do with Lady Wallingdon's invitation. A part of his mind recommended he burn it. Another part suggested he urinate on it. Another advised him to shove it down Her Ladyship's throat.

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said."I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.