Between the Devil and Ian Eversea Quotes

“The message was sealed with a blob of wax but no press of a signet. She slid a finger beneath to crack the seal, and read: I apologize if I’ve ever behaved like an ass.

It was the most romantic message she’d ever received. All other messages would strive to live up to it for the rest of her days. She was convinced of that in the moment.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“Not every man will make you want to do anything he wishes because the moment he touches you your body is his to command. Not every man is capable of making you scream with bliss in every imaginable position, or knows where to touch you or listens to your breath and your sighs to know precisely how to touch you, so that the pleasure you experience is the most intense. Not every man will make you see stars every ...single... time.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“A murder of crows, a pride of lions, a judgment of ladies,”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“He was a relentlessly cheerful presence, talked only of himself but so good-naturedly that she indulged him. He certainly laughed a good deal. Something about his laugh made her feel more alone than if she were standing on a high cliff at the end of the world, shouting her name into the void to hear it echo back at her.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“there was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“The two of them froze and stared at each [sic] from across the silent, woolly garden.
And Ian, as he always did when he saw Falconbridge, felt a certain amount of shame. They had both shamed each other, on that fateful night, and really, it was hardly conversation kindling.
'Good morning,' Ian said politely.
'Good morning.'
Their voices echoed absurdly in the cool morning air.
A silence. Ian supposed it would be just a little too ironic if he scrambled up a fruit tree and clambered over a wall instead of walking past the duke, back to where he'd tethered his horse.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“The butterflies did a slow orbit in her stomach.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“the brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him]”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“A nondescript place, but it had inevitably changed over the years; one of the old oaks had been split by lightning and now lay on its side, and the others had grown into behemoths around their fallen comrade.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“Perhaps men like the Everseas were commonplace here in England. Perhaps finding a beautiful titled husband would be as simple as shaking an apple from a tree.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea

“the sympathy calls had been shot through with a subtle, yet unmistakably morbid glee. The queen had at last been nudged from her throne. It had taken disaster to do it, but still.”
― Julie Anne Long, Between the Devil and Ian Eversea