The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes (Last Chance Scoundrels, #1)

by Eva Leigh

“Acting in support of decency and humanity doesn’t require compensation,”

even the most protective instincts were smothering if they were applied with too forceful a hand.

“All this time,” she muttered, “I believed other people kept me in line, reining me in, but perhaps they’ve done such an effective job of telling me what I can’t do, now I tell myself what’s impossible.”

“Love’s a complicated thing,” she said. “It seldom exists in its purest form.”

“None of us are precisely who people believe us to be.”

“Depending on others to bring us happiness leads to disappointment.”

“Why is it that the people we share blood with are the ones who understand us the least?”

“Men think that they’re champions if they don’t behave like beasts. Hurrah, you’ve done the absolute minimum.”

“This is the real word, and in the real world no one can simply make assumptions about what the other person wants. Not without a conversation.”