Julie Carpenter

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

“During their months apart, he’d begun to wonder if he’d imagined how beautiful she was–how very perfect she was for his painting. But he hadn’t imagined anything, had he? Indeed, it was possible that his memory had blunted the effect of her.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“You could alter her face before you commit your preliminary sketch to canvas. That would be a way of respecting --"

"I want all of her," Teddy interrupted impatiently. "Her face. Her figure. Her silver hair. That's my star. It must be all or nothing.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“A surge of emotion constricted Nell's throat. Perhaps she'd been wrong to kiss him. Perhaps she was using him shamelessly.
But no.
That would imply that anyone would have done. Any man. Any friend. Anyone who might help to keep the storm of emotion at bay. But it hadn't been just anyone she'd wanted as she'd departed Lady Belwood's house this afternoon. It had been Miles.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Marriage Method