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“Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don’t know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, and Cleopatras, and Joan of Arcs, Queen Elizabeths, and Catharine the Seconds, and they riot in battle, and murder, and clamour, and desperation. If they can’t agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they’ll make mountains of warfare and vexation out of domestic molehills; and social storms in household teacups. Forbid them to hold forth upon the freedom of nations and the wrongs of mankind, and they’ll quarrel with Mrs Jones about the shape of a mantle or the character of a small maid-servant. To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the nosier, the more persevering, the most self-assertive sex.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

“This time, Anne had...kissed him as eagerly as he’d kissed her. It was an extraordinarily powerful thing to kiss a gentleman. To feel his breath catch and his large frame quake with longing.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill

“Anne laughed... Her face was awash with color.
Hart desperately wanted to kiss her again.
Who was he fooling? He wanted to lock himself in a room with her for a month.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill

“Crucibles burn away the dross... Sometimes, I fancy that’s what has happened to me.”

She studied his face. “How do you mean?”

“All of this... I lost faith. I lost heart.” His eyes met hers with rueful humor. “I lost you.”

Ann stilled. Her breath caught in her throat as he reached to brush a stray curl of hair from her temple. He tucked it back into the confines of her black bonnet.

“I suppose that sometimes you have to be put into the fire to realize what’s truly important to you,” he said. “It burns everything else away. Melts you down to your finest parts. in the end, all that was left of me were my responsibilities-- and my love for you.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill

“I told you in York,” he said. “It isn’t over.”
Her eyes closed briefly against a swell of such raw yearning she didn’t know whether to weep or to swoon.
He bent his head to hers. “It never has been. Not for me.”
She felt his breath warm against her lips for a suspended moment before his mouth captured hers.
A muffled gasp. A flicker of doubt.
And then . . .
Oh, and then.
Her lips softened, yielding beneath his as if they’d been waiting for him all this time.
A low growl of approval sounded in his throat. It reverberated within her, a thoroughly disconcerting sensation. She wanted—”
― Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill

“There's only one person I know who can solve problems the way you can, Georgie, and that's because you've never lived your life ten years into the future. Ten days or ten hours. You've always lived for making things better in the moment.”
― Kate Clayborn, Georgie, All Along

“Naturally he underestimated her. He knew nothing about the strength of her convictions or about the lengths she was willing to go for a noble cause.”
― Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience

“She was lovely, of course. But it wasn’t that which had beguiled him so thoroughly against his will -- against his self-interest and his reason. It was the softness of her. The tender gravity in her gaze, and the reticence in her manner.”
― Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience

“He didn’t think. He didn’t strategize. For once, he acted purely with his heart, doing what he most wanted to do. What he’d dreamed of doing from almost the first moment of their acquaintance.
He bent his head and he kissed her...”
― Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience

“She’d been made small for so long, the words hadn’t existed to articulate the wild yearnings within her... She knew now what she wanted-- what she’d always wanted... The freedom to want, to choose, to be. To live a colorful, conspicuous, unconventional life.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“All that life in him, the sensitivity in his art and his ability to see things in all their light and shadow, stems from his own vulnerability... Indeed, there are times when he still struggles mightily with his condition.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“He wanted to be recognized for the things he could control, not for those things he couldn’t.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“The temptation was too great to resist. Heart thundering madly, Teddy closed the distance and pressed his lips to hers.
Her eyes fell shut as he captured her mouth. A soft murmur of assent throbbed in her throat.
The sound sent a wild rush of heat through his veins...”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“He had the vague thought that riding a difficult mare for so many years had given her an unseen reservoir of power. Luminous as she appeared, she was no will-o’-the-wisp. She was formidable. Strong.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“Starlight, of course,” he said solemnly. “For you, it will always be starlight.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“The raven is unique. An intelligent and prophetic bird. Ravens don't abandon their young. They remain with them into early adulthood, flying beside them.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin

“I really, really wasn't, but somehow, that was enough to cool the harsh sting of all those memories. He saw me, and he loved me.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“My point is, no one really knew me before you, Poppy. And even if . . . things change between us, you’ll never be alone, okay? I’ll always love you.”
― emily henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Then you thought you were pregnant and it scared me so much I got a fucking vasectomy. And it didn’t even occur to me to ask Sarah what she thought. I just made the appointment, and a few days after, I was walking past this antique store and I saw this ring. An old, yellow-gold art deco thing with a pearl. I saw it and thought, That would be a perfect engagement ring. Maybe I should buy it. And my very next thought after that was, What the fuck am I doing? Not just the ring––which Sarah would’ve hated, by the way––but the vasectomy, all of it. I was doing it all for you, and I know that’s not normal, and it definitely wasn’t fair to her, so I ended things. That day.” He shakes his head. “I scared myself so much that I couldn’t tell you what had happened. It was terrifying to realize how much I loved you. And then you and Trey broke up, and––God, Poppy, of course all of it was because of you. Everything is because of you. Everything.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Poppy there may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but that day is not today.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Can you just do me one favor?” I ask.
He knots his hands against my spine. “Hm?”
“Only hold my hand when you want to.”
“Poppy,” he says, “there may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but that day is not today.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“you asked me what I’d be willing to give up for you, and now I know the answer is: everything. There’s nothing in this whole world that I’ve built in my head that I’m not prepared to let go of to build a new one with you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“All he knew was that Bea was in his arms, and that nothing in his life had ever felt more right.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Governess and the Rogue

“What woman among them could set eyes on Jack and not be lured into daydreams about having him for her own? The temptation was palpable, even for Bea.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Governess and the Rogue

“It's only dreamers who have cause to stare at the stars."
"You presume I'm not a dreamer?”
― Mimi Matthews, The Governess and the Rogue