A Gentleman Undone Quotes

“I love you for your quickness and your brokenness and your sharp edges too.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings."

He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length, like a scullery maid disposing of a dead rat.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“With all the insolence she swallowed, it was a wonder her corsets still laced. Retort after rejoinder after sharp-edged remark: Why do you address me? What can I possibly have to say to a man who would split a pair of fives? Be quiet. Go to sleep. Go away. Come back when you have another erection.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“She said no, and he didn’t assume she only needed the right sort of persuasion. He credited her with knowing her own mind. I vow it’s a pity he hasn’t any money. A lady would be lucky to be kept by such a man.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung with her own hands before hurling it over the hedge to rot with feelings.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“Have you learned nothing from Kitty of how a married sister ought to behave? You must invite young ladies of your own choosing, and foist them upon me with adamance directly proportional to my lack of interest.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“Some men there were who know how to look at a lady, and make her feel she'd been seen. Or perhaps there was no question of knowing how. Some men just looked at ladies that way. [...] Tell me what absorbs you so, such a man might say. I wonder at your thoughts. He might even guess. It's to do with cards, isn't it?”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“He shook his head, the corner of his mouth ticking up. “My way this time, remember? No ordering me about. I place an embargo on the word harder.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“A lock of her hair escaped its pin and rode out on the wind, one more insubordinate part of her reaching for him.”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone

“My actions dishonored us both.” -Will
“It’s not in your power to dishonor me.” -Lydia”
― Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone