Beauty and the Blacksmith Quotes

“You’re a terrible cook. That I’ll grant you. You can’t hold your liquor, either. And you have questionable taste in men. So no, you’re not perfect.” His voice sank to a husky whisper, and his gaze dropped to her mouth. “But you’re close. Close enough to restore a man’s faith in miracles.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“My God, what’s happened?” He crossed to her at once and knelt at her side. “What is it? Tell me.”
“It’s ruined,” she cried.
“What’s ruined?”
“Everything. Your meal. My life. Our chances.” She hiccupped. “The eel.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“Have you been kissed before?”

“I don’t know whether to say yes or no. Which answer will make you do it again?”

“Oh, I’m going to do it again.” His thumb stroked her cheek. “Just wanted to know how slow to take things.”

“A little faster would be fine.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“Won’t you kiss me?” she whispered, sidling close. “Just the once?”

“The thing is, Miss Highwood, I’m not interested in kissing you just the once.”

“Oh.” Her face fell.

He propped one finger under her chin, tilting her face back up. “If I were to kiss you, once wouldn’t be enough. I’d want to kiss you many times. In lots of places.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“Diana opened her eyes and steeled her resolve. Some days, she decided, freedom meant the wind in your hair and the sun on your face and lips swollen with forbidden kisses.
And other days, freedom meant killing an eel.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“I need to know,” he said. “I need to know, right now, if you’re mine. I’ve been patient for years, and if need be, I can wait years more. I’ll do anything in my power to win you, to keep you. But I need to know, this moment, if you’ll be mine in the end.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“He made his voice low and smug as he thumbed her hardened nipple. Smearing soot in a lewd circle. “Don’t play innocent, Miss Highwood. You’ve been wanting this. A hard, sweaty pounding from the village smith. These strong, dirty hands all over your body. You’ve been wanting it, haven’t you?”

“I . . .”

He withdrew halfway, then slid deep. “Haven’t you?”

As he moved in and out, her head bobbed in a subtle nod.

“Say it.” He thrust hard.

She gasped. “Yes.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“Outside of muttering his way through Sunday service, Aaron had not voiced a conscious prayer in more than ten years. He supposed it wouldn’t help his chances in the hereafter if he returned to the fold with Saints preserve me from premature ejaculation. No matter how sincerely uttered.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“You’re a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I’m going to trust that you know your own mind.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“If you need anything, you will ask?” “Oh, of course I will,” she assured him. “Don’t look so worried. It’s not as though I’ve never done this before.” Diana had never done this before. Any of it.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“made him want to carry her into a field of wildflowers, lay her down like a picnic blanket, and feast.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“his sternum. That shamelessly sensual crossroads of bone and muscle and sinew and skin.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith

“Some days, she decided, freedom meant the wind in your hair and the sun on your face and lips swollen with forbidden kisses. And other days, freedom meant killing an eel.”
― Tessa Dare, Beauty and the Blacksmith