Edward describing Angeline's bonnet)Then it is overbright and those colors should never been seen togther upon the same person, not to mention the same . he said. And it actually suits you perfectly....
For all other women. He
You aren’t intending to spend your married life quarreling, I hope? Claude said, frowning as his brother passed a hand nervously through his hair and turned to the door. I intend to be happy, Lord Fra...
To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.
The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you.
That would seem to imply that women crave brutality and abuse, she said. It does not show a great respect for either women themselves or their minds.
That was the heart of the difference, she thought. In her world she had learned to . Other people seemed to gain their sense of identity and worth from
She hastily tried to shut the door. But his forearm shot up and held it open. They stared at each other for several silent moments. What are you doing here? she demanded at last. It was only at that m...
Nem sempre podemos esconder-nos da vida. (…) É melhor nem sequer tentar e encarar simplesmente o que precisa de ser encarado.
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
Lord Francis sighed. When you get back to Bedlam, Soph, he said, ask them to reserve a room for me, will you? There’s a good girl. I am going to be needing it soon. Sophia clucked her tongue and spurr...
It is a common failing of men. They see someone they consider beautiful and desirable and eligible, and they imagine that they love her. In fact, though, they love themselves reflected in her eyes.
If he ever grew to understand himself, Hugo decided, it would be a miracle of the first order. Not
I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, and my strength too for whatever it is worth. You will never be a burden to me.
He wanted desperately to love her, to be able to make her happy, to be a family with her and their children. He wanted the dream—home, wife, children, love, happiness. Not fleetingly—gone almost befor...
Good Lord, even to his own ears they sounded like a pair of coconspirators being so overhearty in their enthusiastic simulation of innocence that they proclaimed themselves as guilty as hell.
Forever is not granted to any of us, the duchess said. Even tomorrow is not granted as by right. Any of us can go at any moment.
But they are good hands, he said, holding them up in the space between them, palms toward her. Slim hands, slender fingers, gold rings on four of them. Three of those fingertips had felled a man and l...
But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams...
But I am glad you are not some sort of superhuman pillar of strength. I would not be able to prevail against it. I am too weak, too fragile. In each other’s weaknesses, perhaps we can both find streng...