But Ashley had always understood. He had always known there was a person behind the silence - not just a person who listened with her eyes and would have responded in similar words if she could have,...
And then, when I was at my lowest ebb, you came. And you somehow coaxed me into talking to you as though you were a trusted confidant. And then you flirted with me. For a few moments you bore me off w...
Ah, these double meanings, she said. Who invented the English language, I wonder? He did not do a stellar job of it, whoever he was.
But most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.
What she ought to have done as soon as she discovered that Lady Webb was not in London to help her. She was going to find the Earl of Durbury if he was still in town. If he was not, she was going to f...
What she had
Studied its architecture and intricate decoration
Park came into view—the double arched stone bridge over the fast-flowing river;
Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and...
Why have you done all this for me? She turned her head to look at him. Tell me the truth.He shook his head slowly.I don't think I could have been more terrified of the devil than I was of you, she sai...
I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and...
I am free, you see, she said, to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you ha...
He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and was grateful for it. And resentful of...
Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is atheart.
En ocasiones sucede algo tan catastrófico que durante un tiempo, a veces durante mucho tiempo, resulta imposible ver algo en la oscuridad,incluso parece imposible creer que haya algo más allá. Pero si...
Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo? the duke asked. Not really. Hugo sighed. I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too
But there really was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by huma...
But that was the second version, she reminded him. In the first one you had died and gone to heaven and found it was a brothel..
But he was not Matthew. He was everything that Matthew was not. He was safety and comfort and warmth. He was home. He was everything in the world that was hope and sunshine. He took a step toward her...
Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.