Tempt Me at Twilight (The Hathaways, #3)

by Lisa Kleypas

The situation reminded her of something her mother had often said about marriage: “Never remember his mistakes, but always remember your own.”

“It’s a quote by Erasmus,” she said helpfully. “My father’s favorite monk, after Roger Bacon. The watch is inscribed,‘It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.’

It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep . . . a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.

one can’t avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.”