The Temptation of the Night Jasmine Quotes

“They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say and every move she didn't make. She was tense with uncertainty, quivering with irresolution. She might not be leaning into him, but she wasn't pulling away, either.”
― Lauren Willig, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

“There was nothing the least bit radical about her. In fact, she was the most conventional creature alive. She believed in true love, and loyalty to one's monarch, and death before dishonor. It was just that, sometimes, things didn't quite turn out as one would have wished. In those cases, there was nothing to do but carry on. And on and on and on.”
― Lauren Willig, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

“I didn't know there could be an almost kiss. It seems like the sort of thing that either happens or it doesn't.
Oh no... There's an entire universe of near misses out there, kisses that almost were, but weren't.”
― Lauren Willig, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

“Some things worked far better in imagination than reality. In imagination, she was intrepid and resourceful; in reality she wished she were home, wrapped in a quilt.”
― Lauren Willig, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

“That's a good point, I suppose,' he said in that way people have when you've just said something that's so off the mark it might as well be in Sanskrit, but they like you, so they want to make something positive out of it so they can give you the credit you both know you don't deserve.”
― Lauren Willig, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

“A tempting little voice whispered that the means didn’t matter so long as the end was right. But she had never agreed with Machiavelli in that. The means shaped the end.”
― Lauren Willig, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

“This, thought Charlotte despairingly, was the problem with the world outside the cover of a book. She couldn’t craft Robert’s dialogue for him, putting the words she wanted to say into his lips. She couldn’t control the direction of his emotions. All she could do was attempt to discipline her own.”
― Lauren Willig, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine