More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
It is now the nineteenth century, and we respect women and treat them as equals in areas not pertaining to politics, property, warfare, finances, or the law.”
Has Sir Horley decorated his room in shades of arsehole?”
half repentant, half not.
How did you comfort someone you were in the middle of destroying?
“I will not live in your margins, Valentine, when all I’ve ever wanted is to be your hero.”
BREAK MY HEART
“Well, your father and her father thought it would be a nice idea. But you can’t do something just because a couple of men thought it might be a nice idea.”
“What a dull life you must think I lead, darling, that I go around caring who other people marry.”
“Forgive the unseemly candour, but he’s dead: I don’t think he cares about anything very much.”
“You don’t have to patronise me, Mother. I’m well aware this was all you.”
“He thought too much of who he was supposed to be and did not spend enough time as who he was.
“Here we are. Time’s harlots. Each and every one of us.”
“That waiting to be saved is a fool’s game. I shall never make that mistake again.”
I’m a little surprised you managed to live up to it.” “Oh, I certainly did not live up to it,” Valentine admitted. “But Bonny has somehow managed to find something worth loving in me regardless.”
That pair would bedevil the devil himself, given half a chance.”
“You don’t deserve to be talked to.” “You just talked to me.” “Telling you I don’t want to talk to you isn’t talking to you. It’s telling you I don’t want to talk to you.”
“I’ve spent a lifetime with my legacy and my family name and my blah blah blah,” Valentine went on, “and while I cannot deny they’ve made my life very comfortable, they have never once made me happy. You have very rarely made me comfortable. But you have—somehow, impossibly and undeniably—made me happy.”
