Jan > Jan's Quotes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.”
― Mary Balogh, Slightly Wicked

“One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.”
― Mary Balogh, Seducing an Angel

“I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand.”
― Grace Burrowes, The Heir

“Is this all you want, Anna?” He brought his arms around her and urged her to lean into him. “Merely an embrace? I’ll understand it, if you do.”
“It isn’t merely an embrace,” she replied, loving the feel of his lean muscles and long bones against her body. “It is your embrace, and your scent, and the cadence of your breathing, and the warmth of your hands. To me, there is nothing mere about it.”
― Grace Burrowes, The Heir

“Even when I cried,” she said, a world of resignation in her tone, “I was glad to be here with you, Westhaven. Believe that, if you believe nothing else of me.”

What she had meant was: Even when I cried because I must leave you, I was glad to be here with you… Believe that if you believe nothing else of me when I find the courage to finally go.”
― Grace Burrowes, The Heir

“Beauty in things exits merely in the mind which contemplates them.”
― David Hume

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“The flame in her was slow and deep-he was going to incite it with the fire in himself; he was going to make a blaze to burn down cities, to lay waste cathedrals and castles and plain meetinghouses-to make a world where it was only him, and only her, and this bed, and one flesh.”
― Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm

“She unsettled him; he anchored her. Together, they could be more than they were apart.”
― Tessa Dare, Do You Want to Start a Scandal

“Mental seduction. He’d never thought it possible”
― Karen Ranney, The Irresistible MacRae

“All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time”
― Karen Ranney

“He wanted to know her with such familiarity that he could curve his fingers around a wrist, an ankle, a knee and recognize her from a hundred, a thousand other women”
― Karen Ranney, The Irresistible MacRae

“Not a mindless relinquishing of physical dignity in exchange for favors or pleasure, but an intentional vulnerability far more dangerous and lasting.”
― Grace Burrowes, Matthew