I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.
Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.
A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.
…I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking……I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to...
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.
The chef turned back to the housekeeper. Why is there doubt about the relations between Monsieur and Madame Rutledge?The sheets, she said succinctly.Jake nearly choked on his pastry. You have the hous...
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life...
I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined
I’ve lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the insi...
I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.
I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.How sweet, Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. Every woman dreams of being told t...
I don’t want to be a widow, I don’t want Michael Bayning, and I don’t want you to joke about such things, you tactless clodpole!As all three of them stared at her openmouthed, Poppy leapt up and stalk...
I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't to...
I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses...
Feeling the slight tremor of his fingers against her skin, Daisy was emboldened to remark, I’ve never been attracted to tall men before. But you make me feel— If you don’t keep quiet, he interrupted c...
Bad divorce? Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.No, the divorce was great, I said. It was the marriage that sucked.
You think you want me now. But you'll change. Someday you'll find it damned easy to forget about me. I'm a bastard. A servant, and not even an upper servant at that--""You're the other half of me." (A...
You don’t annoy me. Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot’s been asleep. And when you sta...
When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.