Reckless Quotes

“He needed to keep as far away from her as possible, or they'd end up back in bed together or she'd kill him. And he wasn't sure which he preferred.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“And yet still she watched him... he wondered why. One possibility, and by far his favorite, was that she was planning his murder.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“You'd be better served if
you gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least a
gentleman can do."
"And you're such a gentleman."
"Not with you, love. But I'm trying.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“Goodbye, Lord Rohan," she said. The door to Lina's house stood open, the footman waitig patiently. "I don't expect we'll see each other again."
His smile was slow, mocking, irresistibly devilish. "Would you care to wager on that, my love?”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“If she simply stayed in the country she would never have to see him again. Viscount Rohan was notoriously unmoved by the countryside, avoiding it at all costs. If she could just convince Lina to remove to her Dorset estate then soon or later Rohan would go abroad, and maybe he'd fall off a mountain or marry a Chinese princess or be eaten by a tiger.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“You've been pinning for him these last three years, God knows why. Admittedly he's gorgeous, but you're hardly the type to be overset by simple beauty. Why?"
Because he has sad eyes, she could have said. Because he tries so very hard to be bad, to be mean, to be cruel, and all you have to do is look past the studied ennui to see a hurt little boy trying to emerge. And yes, because he's bloody gorgeous.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“He knew her weakness. She wanted to be pretty, and thought she wasn’t. When in fact he thought she was quite the prettiest thing in his memory.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“There’d been something rare and dangerous between them during those two dark days, some kind of connection that he’d never felt before. And the damned feeling had lasted, disturbing with his sleep, leaving him bored with the beautiful, experienced women he could easily have. In truth, he wanted Charlotte and no one but Charlotte, and his efforts to get over her were only making things worse.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“Her longing for him was unbearably painful. In truth, she looked at the beautiful, spoiled, self-indulgent man and saw a wounded, angry child. One who needed her.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“He’d done his best to ignore the angry, veiled invitation in the little virgin’s eyes, the one she didn’t even know she’d issued. But now she’d delivered herself to him, he could hardly resist, now, could he?”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless

“She was in love with Adrian Rohan, and had been for years, and nothing, not his rudeness nor tales of his outrageous excess, nor all her own rational self-discourse, could change her.”
― Anne Stuart, Reckless