The Duke Quotes

“I’ll never leave you. I’ll never mistreat you. I think you know that by now. Try with me. Let us find what we
may find.”
“What do you expect to find, Robert?”
“How should I know? I’ve never experienced anything like this before in my life.”
Tears shone briefly under her graceful long lashes before she blinked them away and glanced at him
again with a reluctant twist of a smile. Sitting up, she wrapped her arms around her bent knees and
sighed. “You are asking us both to set ourselves up for great hurt when it comes time for me to leave.”
“Leave? Don’t speak of leaving, angel. You must stay forever.”
“As your mistress.”
“As my love,” he countered insistently.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“You could be a gambler. A thief, for all I know. Besides—” He captured her hand and stopped
her from walking on, holding her in place.
“Besides what, you insufferable prude?”
“Prude, eh? Do you need another kiss to remind you what a prude I am?”
“Don’t you dare.”
“Then don’t call me names.”
“You started it.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“You’re safe now .. .
and I love you.”
She lifted her face and turned to him, her eyes wide at his words, her lips soft and trembling. “I love you,
too, Robert,” she said very quietly. “I shouldn’t, but I do.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove the book from off the top of her head and open it for a change. Just like I taught you.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“I’ve been wanting to do this all night. Give me those luscious—” He ripped the front of her bodice
open, freed her breasts, and buried his face between them. “Mmmm. God, I could devour you,” he
moaned as his hot, wet mouth captured her nipple.
Bel gasped then let out a low, breathless laugh of delirious pleasure.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“I’ll never leave you. I’ll never mistreat you. I think you know that by now. Try with me. Let us find what we may find.”

“What do you expect to find, Robert?”

“How should I know? I’ve never experienced anything like this before in my life.” Tears shone briefly under her graceful long lashes before she blinked them away and glanced at him again with a reluctant twist of a smile. Sitting up, she wrapped her arms around her bent knees and sighed.

“You are asking us both to set ourselves up for great hurt when it comes time for me to leave.”

“Leave? Don’t speak of leaving, angel. You must stay forever.”

“As your mistress.”

“As my love,” he countered insistently.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“for the first time, in this unforeseen way, with half a house between them, the frigid star of the demimonde finally allowed a man to touch her.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“If you let true love escape you, all for the sake of your worldly fame, one day you will wake up and realize you are no better than I - a blind, bloody fool.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“When you love a man, you are in his power.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke