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I'm going to your mother, y'see... she's got 'em to leave a back door open... so I can steal into 'eaven.

I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind." He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.

False modesty is evidence of secret pride, Mr. Winterborne

If I ever get arrested," I said, "you will be my one phone call. Bail me out—that's what you can do." "If you ever get arrested," Sofia said, "I'll already be in jail as your accomplice.

You... you are so...' She couldn't even think of a suitable word. 'I know. Woefully primitive.' Laughter threaded through his voice. 'But I must be tolerated, because I'm a man and I really can't help it.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

Rhys gave him a surly glance. "I was an altar boy, and I can tell you that reports of their virtue are highly exaggerated.

It's a sin." "How do you know?" "Because it feels like one

There is nothing wrong with being an ordinary person, is there?" "No. But you're not ordinary- or you never would have come to me instead of marrying cousin Eustace." "I was desperate." "That wasn't the entire reason." His low voice sounded like a purr. "You also had a taste for the devil.

She's not a lunatic," Daisy told her sister. "She's a New Yorker.

More to the point, the footman conveyed your luggage to one of the upstairs rooms, but no one seems to know which one." "Has anyone thought of asking him?" Devon suggested dryly.

Those mesmerizing eyes stared right into hers with an intensity that caused her brain to do an abrupt control-alt-delete.

He looked up at her, a spill of black silk falling down to his eyes. He was so vibrant, so dark and beautiful, his skin like polished rosewood.

He's only trying to minimize the casualties. You can't blame him for that." "Tell me what I can blame him for, then." "In this situation?" A note of apology entered his voice. "Being realistic." Kathleen gave him a reproachful glance.

You have no sympathy for Theo because you didn't like him," she said awkwardly, "but--" "I haven't yet decided whether I like you either. That doesn't change my opinion of the situation.

If I were going to molest you," he pointed out, "I would have done so by now." Her flush deepened at his bluntness. "So you say. But for all I know, you could be a very slow molester.

It's impossible," he snapped. "Why?" "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.

Mrs. Chandler shouted after us, "And I hope that was all-natural food coloring you put on my dog!

And watch for Midnight Fire, the next book in the Midnight series, coming soon!

her white blouse with the little buttons bo-peeping down the front.

You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.

Gravity in our world would be weak because extra dimensions are large, not because there is fundamentally a big mass responsible for the tiny gravitational force.

The particle's discovery is tremendously exciting. It's also inspirational. Let's just enjoy that for now.

Dirty?" I supply. "Yes. It was. And I am. And so are you or you wouldn't know what a hard limit is.