The Pleasure of Your Kiss Quotes

“When her father offered him her hand in marriage and a fortune in gold and jewels as a reward, Burke informed him that he would be content with nothing more than a kiss.’”
“Her father must have been a most excellent kisser,” Clarinda replied, lifting the book to hide her face altogether.”
― Teresa Medeiros, The Pleasure of Your Kiss

“Ash swept his gaze over the room. “Well, we have a vicar, guests, and a bride. It seems all we’re lacking is a groom.”
“Are you volunteering yourself for the position, Captain?” Clarinda asked primly. “I heard a rumor that you’d recently become unemployed.”
Moving closer to her, Ash lifted one shoulder in a nonchalant shrug. “This may be my only chance to catch you between fiancés. And besides, where am I going to find a corpulent sodomite as pretty as you?”
― Teresa Medeiros, The Pleasure of Your Kiss

“The wicked gleam had returned to his eyes. “Why the sudden urgency? From what I understand, you’re not scheduled to get married until the sixth anniversary of your twenty-first birthday.”
― Teresa Medeiros, The Pleasure of Your Kiss

“Her boldness only served to remind him that he had strayed into a world of masculine privilege even greater than the one he had left behind in England all those years ago. Here a man’s word literally was law, and women were considered little more than pretty playthings to be used and then discarded when a man’s attention wandered to a more enticing pleasure.”
― Teresa Medeiros, The Pleasure of Your Kiss

“I would be remiss not to give equal credit to Burke’s man here,” Farouk amended, earning a smug smirk from Ash’s companion. “He was clever enough to offer his throat to one of the villains as a distraction while his master dispatched the rest of them.” The man’s smirk vanished, only to reappear on Ash’s lips.”
― Teresa Medeiros, The Pleasure of Your Kiss