The Day of the Duchess (Scandal & Scoundrel, #3)

by Sarah MacLean

“How did you know how thoroughly women adore being corrected by men? And over forms of address, especially. It is a great wonder that none of us have ever fallen in love with you.”

“The powerful collude, Duke. They connive and they scheme to get what they want.”

“You’ll find I have little interest in what is done. Instead, I prefer getting things done.”

“Poor, sad men, so kind and blameless, fairly wandering the streets in their impotent impressionability. How well they must be protected from the wiles of women, who want nothing but their destruction.”

“I do so like it when a man tells me about myself. It’s positively aphrodisiacal.”

“Women are not always able to have what we want,” she said, and there was a wistful quality in her tone. “We are too often judged for pursuit.”

“I like that she knows herself. That she believes in herself. That she did not allow herself to be less than what she deserved,”

“No one likes a fearless woman.”