Never Kiss a Rake Quotes

“She stopped. Foolish, hurtful thoughts. Why was it that she was the one who was so cruel to herself? No one else, save perhaps her mother, long ago, had ever made her feel ugly. And last night, this morning, Kilmartyn had made her feel… radiant.”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake

“He wasn’t sure why or how, but he… cared about her. He could be the worst possible bastard, but something stopped him from being that callous, and the thought disturbed him. Was he growing soft? Becoming kind?”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake

“When she stopped long enough to think about it she knew the wanting ran through him as deeply as it ran through her.”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake

“God help her, she wanted him. Not because of his beauty, but because of the odd gentleness in his manner when she didn’t expect it, because of the lost look in his green eyes, because of the way he made her feel with just a few words, because of the way he made her melt when he touched her. The jaded rake he presented to the world was just as much a mask as her own was.”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake

“He didn’t have much of a conscience left, but what remained seemed to belong to Bryony.”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake

“There was only one problem with all this. Seducing well-born virgins was universally frowned upon by society. It was just lucky he didn’t give a tinker’s damn about society. Because he meant to have her, and he was getting tired of waiting. Last night he’d had a taste, and that taste lingered in his senses, driving him mad. He would have her, and soon. The question was, would he ever be ready to let her go?”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake

“I’ll see you in hell.” “Ah, but you’ll be there first, my dear. Move.”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake

“One shouldn’t lust after an innocent.”
― Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake