Silk Is for Seduction Quotes

“She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“If this is how it's going to be -you getting all broody and distracted every time you fall in lust with somebody -well, I haven't the stomach for it. I won't put up with it, not for a dukedom. Not for three dukedoms. I deserve better than the role of a quietly accepting wife. I'm an interesting woman. I read. I have opinions. I appreciate poetry. I have a sense of humor."

"I know all that. I've always known."

"I deserve to be loved, truly loved -mind, body and soul. And in case you haven't noticed, there's a line of men ready to give me all that. Why on earth should I settle for a man who can't give me anything but friendship. Why should I settle for you?”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I'm no good at being good.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I have a plan," he said.
"Yes," she said.
"Let's get married," he said.
"Yes," she said.
"Let's conquer the world," he said.
"Yes," she said. No one in her family had ever been accused of dreaming small.
"Let's bring the beau monde to its knees."
"Yes."
"Let's make them beg for your creations."
"Yes," she said. "Yes, yes, yes."
"Is tomorrow too soon?" he said.
"No." she said. "We've a great deal to do, you and I, conquering the world. We must start at once. We've not a minute to lose."
"I love hearing you say that," he said.
He kissed her. It lasted a long time.
And they would last, she was sure, a lifetime. On that she'd wager anything.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it."
"Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart.
But now she couldn't speak, because it was too much, whatever it was.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“She swallowed it. So bitter.
"Vile," she said. "Vile."
"I know, but it helps. Trust me. I know."
"Trust you," she said. "Hah."
"Clearly you are not dying."
"No. Devil won't take me."
The low chuckle again. "Then we're all safe.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“A man ought to look up to a woman, literally or figuratively, because that is the proper mode of worship, and worship is the very least he can do.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Hell, what was one more scandal?”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm."
"You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.
Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.
Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered.
Then he recalled who it was who had a child.
A child, Noirot had a child!”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Get off," she said. "Get off now."
Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in the traditional manner of our species.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“He'd forget all that, just as he would forget this night.
The memories would linger for a time, but they'd grow dull. The ache he felt now, the frustation and anger and sorrow - all those would fade too.
She'd given him a night to remember, but of course he'd forget.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“...it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well."
"Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“She set her hand against his chest, to push him away. He laid his hand over hers, and held hers there, over his pounding heart.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Clevedon told the dressmakers that the previous tenants (a husband and wife) had fallen into dire financial difficulties within months of opening the place. They’d absconded in the dead of night mere days ago, owing three months’ back rent. They must have borrowed or stolen a cart, because they’d taken away most of the shop’s contents and fixtures.

This was a complete lie.

The truth was, Varley had bribed them to move and sweetened the offer by allowing them to take with them everything that wasn’t nailed down.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“The bourgeoisie is so tediously self-righteous.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I'll be glad to be rid of you. When a man sinks to reading fashion journals - no, it's worse than that. When a man finds himself plumbing their depths, seeking arcane knowledge of no use to him whatsoever ... Oh, it's your corrupting influence. I shall be glad to see the back of you, Noirot, and return to my life.'
'It annoys you to be a guardian angel,' she said.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Clevedon was to take Marcelline shopping.
...
'If we're to get this done by the end of the day, you must come with me ... I've no time to waste while a clerk dithers or tries to sell me something I don't want. I haven't time for dithering about prices. I need prompt, preferably obsequious attention. Entering with the Duke of Clevedon is a sure way to get that and more.'
'I assumed I'd come with you,' he said. 'Did you not notice how diligently I took notes?'
She had noticed and wondered at it. She held her tongue, though, until they were in his carriage. And then it wasn't the notebook she asked about.
'I thought you loathed shopping with women above all things,' she said, remembering what he'd said to Lady Clara.
'That was before,' he said. 'Now you've made it *interesting*, curse you.'
'Interesting?'
'All the bustling about,' he said. 'All the drama. All that naked ambition coupled with passionate belief in the rightness of your vision. All that ... purpose. It amuses me to catch the occasional stray bit of purpose by trailing in your wake.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I love her,' he said. 'I've loved her since we were children. But you-'
'It's my fault, is it?' she said. 'I'm the demon destroying your happiness? Only look at yourself and listen to yourself. Like every other man, you want what you can't have. Like every other man, you'll stay interested - even obsessed - until you get it. You came here this evening because you can't think straight - because it drives you mad not to have something you want.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“I’m going now,” he said. “This is much too shocking. I need to—drink, I believe. Or fight. Something. I love you. That’s what it is. That’s what’s happened. Yes.”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“The ton will be all atwitter about last night”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction

“Clevedon,' she began.
He turned back to her, the smile fading. 'You may not rake me over the coals,' he said. 'She set out to captivate me, much as her mother did-'
'She's six years old!'
'You both succeeded,' he said. 'What was I to do? She's a little girl. Why should she not have a doll?'
'She has dolls! Does she seem neglected to you? Deprived in any way? She's *my* daughter, and I take care of her. She has nothing to do with you. You've no business buying her dolls. What will Lady Clara think? What do you think your fine friends in the ton will say when they hear you've given my daughter gifts? You know they'll hear of it.' Lucie would show the doll to the seamstresses, naturally, and they'd tell everybody they knew, and word would spread through the ton in no time at all. 'And do you think their speculations will do my business any good?'
'That's all you think about. Your business.'
'It's my life, you great thickhead! This' - she swept her hand to indicate the shop - 'This is how I *earn* my living. Can you not grasp this simple concept? Earning a living?'
'I'm not-'
'This is how I feed and clothe and house and educate my daughter,' she raged on. 'This is how I provide for my sisters. What must I do to make you understand? How can you be so blind, so willfully obtuse, so-'
'You'll make me run mad,' he said. 'Everywhere I turn, there you are.'
'That's monstrous unfair! Everywhere I go, there is your great carcass!”
― Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction