A Man Above Reproach Quotes

“It is, of course, much easier for a literary character to take a risk for love. The realities of social strata and responsibility mean nothing but a plot point in today’s modern literature, but outside of these stories we are not pushing for change. The ideals we embody in our art rarely play themselves out in our lives. What would happen if we took the example of our fictional heroes; what if each of us was a Don Juan?”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“Now everything about their lives had become a duet.”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“worry”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“So the Bawdy Bluestocking was the proprietress of her own shop, selling lurid novels to ladies in the front and more esoteric fare in the back, from the looks of the shelves around him. He spied Pope and Crabbe, Shakespeare, of course, and names he did not recognize at all. He wondered how she chose her stock and where it came from. She must spend her days in endless research. The thought was unaccountably lovely to him.”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“She planned to do everything she had fantasized about in their time apart,
everything that she had promised herself she would do if she got him back. It would take a lifetime to discover him.”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“This is perhaps a foolish risk,” she said against his ear.
“What will they do if they catch us?” He gave her a look of mock horror. “Make me marry you?”
“That would be the respectful thing to do.”
“I respect you,” he said darkly, grazing his teeth and tongue over the lace that framed her bosom. “Shall I take you upstairs and respect you over and over again?”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“Elias was so close that she could not even draw a breath before his lips were on hers. ... She could not deny that she wanted him with all her heart, in wanton ways and practical ways, day and night. Almost losing him was far scarier than the life-threatening situations she had faced on her own.”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach