Delicious Quotes

“Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. “I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?”
He smiled. “And I love you too, darling.”

-Lizzy and Will”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“No, Madame, my life will have finally begun. I do not need the blessing of the Liberal establishment to practice law. I do not need the approval of Society to keep Fairleigh Park. And I will gladly be shunned on her behalf.”
Tears came again, hot and sweet. This was how a prince slew dragons for his princess.
“You are mad, Mr. Somerset.” The dowager duchess’s voice trembled.
“I have loved her from the moment I first saw her, Madame. She has left me and I have left her. And now that we are at last together, nothing, save death, will part us again. Not you. Not the Liberal establishment. Not the opinion of every last man, woman, and child in England.” He bowed. “If you will excuse me, I’ve been away from her far too long this day already.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“Stuart did not know why, but he was vulnerable to Madame Durant’s food in a way that defied all logic. While his guests reacted favorably to the courses—Marsden in particular was ecstatic—Stuart was in the middle of seismic shocks, a piece of himself coming undone with each mouthful.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“The rediscovery of taste was as perilous as he'd feared it would be, rousing other dormant, dangerous longings for everything he did not have, everything he'd hoped to hold dear and could not.
Her, of course; her always.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“The panic was sudden and complete.
One minute Stuart was calmly discussing the proposed Customs and Inland Revenue Act with the Chancellor Exchequer, the next minute every last bit of his logic and rationality had deserted him.

What if she’d met Michael and left already? What if she did not want to be found? The false sense of security that came from knowing where she was evaporated in a second.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“sincere. “I thought you wouldn’t want anything to do with me once the sun rose.”
“You were right. I wouldn’t have—if only I knew. And that was why you hid it from me, wasn’t it? You wanted to preserve an illusion. You knew I wouldn’t touch Verity Durant with a ten-foot pole, so you didn’t give me a chance to repudiate her. Then you took that illusion home and left me to pick up the pieces.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“But I expect you to have vacated your post before the end of the year.”
The dead silence burned. He stared empty-eyed at the rain. Remember this. This was what happened when he chose to indulge himself at her expense. It was she who lost her position, her home, and her hard-won proximity to her son.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“You are giggling.” She poked him in the arm. “I’ve never seen you giggle.”
“I can’t help it.” He dissolved into another fit. “I shagged the Lady Vera Drake in broad daylight in the middle of the Dowager Duchess of Arlington’s drawing room. My reputation will never survive it.”
“Your reputation was headed for ruin the moment you met me,” she reminded him.
He brushed a finger on her cheek. “No, that was my heart.”
She cupped his face. “And what a mighty heart it is.” There were tears in her eyes again. “I don’t think I’ve ever told you this, but you are an extraordinary man.”
“I but know what is important to me. And I should have known it much sooner.” He linked their hands together. “Will you marry me, Verity, and make me the happiest man alive?”
“Yes. It will be my honor and my privilege and my heart’s desire,” she said.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“I cannot believe you are who you are,” he said, still flabbergasted. “I know she’s admitted it and everything adds up. But I cannot believe it. I cannot believe I was right and your family really does go back to the Battle of Hastings.”

“Wrong.” She was laughing and crying at once. “And I’m shocked that you don’t know better—we are older than that; we were already earls under Edward the Confessor.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“I love you. I love you. I love you,” said his beloved, between kisses. “I cannot believe what you just did for me. I cannot believe you would give up everything so we could be together. And you gave my family back to me. Now I can be there when Tin gets married. Now I can finally meet my cousins’ children.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“Her name is Vera. The Lady Vera Drake. And I never said she died; I said we lost her.”
Utter silence.
“Do you understand now, Mr. Somerset?”
“My God, do you mean to tell me that—that—”
“Yes,” said the dowager duchess.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“The bell clanged again. His heart seized. He spun around—and fell, onto a splinter of agony. He got to his feet, pulled a piece of glass from his knee, and ran. He banged his shoulder on the doorjamb of the study, banged his other shoulder on the longcase clock, and almost smacked his face into the door.
Just remember, close the door before you kiss her.
He yanked open the door, then slammed it shut in the next instant, his heart as shattered as the broken glasses in his study.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“The doorbell rang. The glass slipped from his hand and broke at his feet.
How long had she been gone? How did one keep track of time in Hell? He might have been in the study for days already, drinking himself into a state. But his servants hadn’t returned to gaze aghast upon him yet, so it couldn’t have been too long.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“He’d always associated her return with an extravagant happiness, the kind promised by fairy tales to keep children from despairing before life’s indiscriminate hardships. But he’d believed it, moon-dust and starlight and all.
It was not to be.
They did not live happily ever after.
The end.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“There was an intimate connection between them, as if they’d known each other always. They were not strangers; they’d merely never met before.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious