Follow My Lead Quotes

“… Looking at her, I think I know better what romantic love is.”

… she asked, “What is it?”

“It is parental love,” he answered thoughtfully. “Wanting to protect and keep the other person safe. As well as the love of friendship - esteeming the other person, even desiring each other’s company beyond all others. And it is lust,” he said, meeting her eyes, and was rewarded with seeing them darken, her breath becoming slightly unsteady, one little word jerking her out of her clinical assessment. He smiled, a predatory, seductive grin. “The physical needing of the other person, the quickened pulse, the sweaty heat.” His hand, which still rested on hers, began slowly moving, his fingers dancing over her skin. “Combining them makes the result greater than its individual parts. Because it produces something else. It creates … a steadiness. A strength. I can’t explain it well - being only an outside observer - but I only know that out of my friends' relationships, my sister‘s marriage is the epitome of grace.”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead

“The workings of the male mind are twisted indeed." Winnifred Crane”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead

“It’s not fair . . . She’s mine . . . She’s always been mine,” George whined deliriously.
“No she’s not,” Jason spat. And then, he took the triptych from Mr. Ellis’s hands. And looking into her eyes, handed it to Winn. “She never belonged to anyone but herself.”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead

“Well, that settles it,” Jason said with mock severity. “Such condescension tells me what I had long suspected.”
“Which is . . .”
“That George Bambridge was not raised with the benefit of a sister.”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead

“What can you do?”
“Head one of the largest estates in England and vote in the House of Lords,” Jason replied. “And brush down a horse. What can you do?”
“Write a paper on the difference between Brunelleschi’s and Ghiberti’s bronze work,” Winn quipped and then, after a thought, “and argue with the butcher.”
“Well . . . we are two utterly useless people,” Jason surmised. “Except for the butcher.”
“And the horses.”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead

“Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was perhaps the best argument against procreation.”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead

“Come along, you need to sleep,” he argued, but she pushed his hands away. “I’m just resting my eyes.” “And Napoleon just had a mild interest in foreign policy. Come on.”
― Kate Noble, Follow My Lead