A Hellion in Her Bed Quotes

“Ah yes," Gabe said, "Pinter is ever the gallant when it comes to the ladies. He wouldn't risk leaving us alone with poor Miss Lake, for the fear one of us might spirit her off to our lair."
"Why?" Miss Lake asked, with a lift of her brow. "Do you three make a habit of spiriting women off?"
"Only on Tuesdays and Fridays," Masters said. "Seeing as how it's Wednesday, your safe."
"Unless you're wearing a blue garter, madam," Gabe quipped. "On Wednesdays, Masters and I have a great fondness for blue garters. Are your gaters blue, Miss Lake?"
"Only on Mondays and Thursdays." She dealt thirteen cards apiece to the two of them, then put the rest aside as the stock, turning the top card faceup. "Sorry gentlemen. I guess you'll have to spirit off some other woman.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed

“He smiled his dimpled smile. "Well, I've found something in my heart, my love, and it's you. You fill it up so completely that I don't need anything else." His gaze turned solemn. "I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe that I can, if you'll be my tree. Will you?"

It was too much. She began to cry, though she smiled so he'd know that they were happy tears. "That proposal...is vastly superior...to your last one," she choked out between sobs. "I would very much love to be your tree."

-Jarret and Annabel”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed

“You see, Jarret?" she said softly. "It can't work. We want different things. You want to follow the wind where it leads, and I want to dig my roots deep. You're a river, and I'm a tree. The tree can never follow the river, and the river can never stay with the tree.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed

“It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed

“I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe that I can, if you'll be my tree. Will you?”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed

“Sometimes getting information from him was like unraveling a carpet one strand at a time.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed

“What way am I looking at him?" she asked.
"Like he's marzipan, and you want a bite”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed

“Life wasn't for lamenting what you'd lost. It was for enjoying what you had, for however long you got to have it. While it was always terrible to lose those precious to you, it was far more terrible never to have had them at all.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Hellion in Her Bed