He just didn’t want to share him with anyone. Ever. She wanted to be the person his eyes sought out in a crowded ballroom, the person he nudged when he had a really smashing joke he just had to tell,...
This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term liminal into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong.
His look felt like a touch
When they arrived at Parva Magna, everyone agreed that it was quite a good thing thatthe newly married couple had managed to find shelter in the storm, although there was someconfusion as to why it ha...
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
In flawless and very aristocratic French, Jane said, Tell Monsieur le Comte de Brillac that he has a guest.Er . . . It was clear the guard didn’t know what to make of her. Do you have papers?Yes. In a...
I'm not sure intentions make much difference in the end. I hear the road to hell is paved with them. She meant it frivolously, but Olivia answered seriously, Yes, but one does have to live with one's...
For a long moment, he held her gaze without speaking, simply letting the impact of words sink in, before adding rapidly, as though he wished to get it over with as quickly as possible, I won't deny th...
Even Sally wound't want to cross fans with the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale. The woman had a tongue of steel and drank the blood of young virgins for breakfast.
But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning w...
With the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.
There is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands...
Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?
Turning to Turnip, Miss Dempsey said, 'Do you think?'. 'As little as I can,' Turnip replied honestly.
Our guest—she gave Nicolas a hard look, willing him to behave himself—is not bound because Monsieur le Comte de Brillac has expressed a desire to become our ally.Miss Gwen snorted. Oh, is that what he...
Jack was not feeling warm and filial sentiments towards his new stepmother. What was she meant to do, deliver me trussed and bound onto the ship?Wouldn’t that be a bit gratuitous? Everyone turned to l...
Jack reached up to tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear. The perfume was growing on him. How are your blisters?It didn’t work. They sting, said Jane shortly. But I didn’t mind that. I didn’t min...
He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world.He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressive....
Freethinking, Lady Frederick? She hated that name. It was like a shackle around her neck, engraved with the name of her master. She took a step back, her face openly mutinous in the light of the singl...