Rules of Surrender Quotes

“She should be inured to disappointment. She never should have had hope. No. No hope. Of all the illusions a governess couldn't afford, hope was the shiniest and most tempting, and the one dream she could never, ever afford. Apparently Charlotte's heart had forgotten that truth.”
― Christina Dodd, Rules of Surrender

“She snapped out, "Why is it that if there are many children, the man is potent, but if the marriage is childless, the woman is infertile?”
― Christina Dodd, Rules of Surrender

“Wynter made her uncomfortably aware that too many restrictions and too little hope bound her to her plebeian existence.”
― Christina Dodd, Rules of Surrender

“When he spoke, it was almost poetry and much too much truth—two sins the ton would not easily forgive.”
― Christina Dodd, Rules of Surrender

“She was changing his thinking, and he didn't like that. Yet he had learned one thing in the desert. Sometimes destiny held him in its grip. He could fight this attraction. He could keep his thinking. But then he could not have Charlotte. And she he would have.”
― Christina Dodd, Rules of Surrender

“It seemed all Englishmen imagined one had to attend Oxford, dress in black and breathe the air of Britain to understand the workings of business. Business, he could have informed them, varied not a whit anywhere in the world.”
― Christina Dodd, Rules of Surrender