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one would think that intelligent parents would be able to keep their children straight without needing to alphabetize their names.
Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them.
“Love is probably too much to hope for in a marriage these days, but I don’t see why she shouldn’t be happy with her husband.
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend’s Sister.
he reminds me of you.” Anthony groaned. “Then she definitely needs my protection.”
“I can’t quite decide if she is being terribly polite or exquisitely rude.”
The Duke of Hastings. Daphne decided then and there that she’d be a fool if she didn’t fall in love with him.
“Reformed rakes make the best husbands,”
Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, 30 April 1813
“I thought dukes were good matches even if they had two heads and spit while they talked.”
“If I hadn’t wanted to join you, there is nothing your mother could have said that would have secured my presence.”
“I thought the primary rule of friendship was that one was not supposed to dally with one’s friend’s sister.” “Ah, but I’m not dallying. I’m merely pretending to dally.”
“Any man, you’ll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.”
And then they were silent, with so much to say and no idea how to say it.
“Sometimes,” Violet said, barely even moving her lips, and certainly not moving her eyes off a single spot on the floor, “people just do it because they like to.”
if people weren’t so intent on keeping young women completely ignorant of the realities of marriage, scenes like this could be avoided.
in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance between them, he became her entire world.
“it is so perfectly splendidly wonderful to be the object of such irrational jealousy. Thank you.”
“I didn’t know her.” “That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a loss.”
There were some things a man didn’t want to deal with naked.
To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.
“I thought you were asleep!” “Doesn’t give you the right to break your promise.”
She’d egotistically thought that she could heal him, make his heart whole. Now she realized that she’d imbued herself with far more power than she actually possessed.
It’s all right to have anger, but you can’t let that be the ruling factor in your life.
Simon had never once told her that he loved her. He’d shown it, in a thousand different little ways, but he’d never said the words.
it’s quite impossible not to love you.”
His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her. He worshipped her. He’d walk across fire for her.
a herd of mentally deficient sheep,
“If I ever, ever hurt you again,” he said fervently, his mouth moving to the corner of hers, “I want you to kill me.” “Never,” she answered, smiling. His lips moved to the sensitive spot where her jaw met her earlobe. “Then maim me,” he murmured. “Twist my arm, sprain my ankle.”
“‘Now’ doesn’t even compare to tomorrow. And tomorrow couldn’t possibly compete with the next day. As perfect as I feel this very moment, tomorrow is going to be even better.
“Well, you know what they say about motherhood,” Penelope said. “‘They’?” Daphne murmured. Penelope paused just long enough to shoot her a wry grin. “The years fly by, and the days are endless.”
