Yes, it is. Bennett blew out his breath. You can’t expect me to…sit in the morning room and chat
What? she asked, eyeing him in the mirror. He shook himself. What what? You’re smiling. That scares me.
What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?''He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.''I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.
Until the battle with the Revanche he hadn’t thought he would ever tire of gazing at the horizon. Only since then had he noticed that the view was . . . empty.
So you intend to spend the remainder of your life whoring, drinking, wagering, and being as outrageous as you can manage?Bram shook himself. He made it a point to be serious as little as possible, and...
Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. —The Monster, Frankenstein
Can I look at my feet now? No. A bird never looks at its wings while it’s flying. If it did, it would realize it’s doing something utterly impossible, and fall to the ground.
Blue eyes held hers. I have the oddest desire to learn what you want from life, he continued.
Are you doing reporting for the Enquirer now, Patricia?Oh, please. It’s a perfectly logical question.Hey, Patty, Sam called in a carrying voice, can you call back? We’re right in the middle of having...
And even though he enjoyed being around her, he resisted her,because he was supremely aware that he wasn't the old Robert any longer; he was Bit, a piece of whathe'd once been.
You've gone mad. What's driven you to this nonsense?You have, he snarled. You, with your pretty gray eyes and your smile and the way you speak your mind. The sound of your laugh, your tears when somet...
You want Felicity. And you're trying to buy her.'Deerhurst shoved him backward. 'What if I am? How is that different from you keeping a place you don't want just so you can hang about her? I've seen h...
What did I do now?'It was getting to the point where she didn't know any longer, but she was certain it couldn't be proper. 'Don't waste sugar,' she improvised.'I'm not wasting it; I'm drinking it,' M...
We are not a couple,' she said softly. 'Therefore I cannot cuckold you.''Shall I pull out the note and point to the bit where it says we're lovers?'Her lashes lowered a touch. 'Are you jealous, darlin...
There isn't a necklace, is there?''You'll only find out if you answer my question.''You're mean.''I'm learning to be so.' She preferred to think of it as taking more of a hand in her own destiny, but...
That evil mojo thing was in my pocket, though, wasn’t it? she demanded. If it hadn’t been, she was just plain-and-simple cursed.
Taken as a whole, men are idiots and fools. They want what they cannot have, and fear what they do have has been gotten too cheaply to be valuable.
So you’ll forget her and move on.I suppose I will. As soon as I forget how to breathe.
Shaw grinned again, wishing mightily that he and she were alone by the fire. I never claimed to be much of a gentleman. But whether you tote about a parasol or not, you are every inch a lady. Quite po...
Roses, Georgiana repeated, her thoughtful gaze touching his. It's about time one of the Carroway mendecided to cultivate something other than their poor reputations.