Four Nights with the Duke Quotes

“I may not have been the first to wish to marry her, but I am the one who succeeded.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“My wife is a lovely, intelligent woman. She has the kind of curves that a man longs to find in his bed. I may not have been the first to wish to marry her, but I am the one who succeeded.” To his total astonishment, he discovered that he meant every word.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“He paused, his eyes searching hers. "I loved Thorn. I love India, Chuffy, of course, Charlie. And you. You most of all, Mia.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“His wife would be his wife for years.
He thought he might like her to kiss him good bye when she was leaving a room. Her lips were delectable.
They could work on that later.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“She may have lost faith in love, but readers needed her novels, especially when they were sick at heart, desperate, nearing death, or watching a loved one fade. They needed to believe in the fairy tale that she no longer believed in herself.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“Just at the moment, her life seemed oddly thin”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“Siblings grow on you in insidious ways.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“Bucknell joined their family, editing her”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“loving spirit, kind heart, and courageous disposition.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“and surrounded by an extraordinary fringe”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“she knew that once she had the plot, she could write the book fairly quickly.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights With the Duke

“Write out your own ending, Nevvy!" Chuffy exclaimed.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“If you'll excuse me, I will retire and have a light supper in my chamber," Mia said. "The brandy went to my head and besides, I have a letter to write."
"Of course," Vander said, thinking perhaps they could eat together in his bedchamber. It would be a prelude to eating in bed.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“fortune”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“I don’t know why you’re crying, Count. I lost closer friends than you when I was deloused!”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke

“nights?” Something unraveled in her heart, destroying the last of her defenses, the final shard of sanity she possessed. “Yes! It is, it is.”
― Eloisa James, Four Nights with the Duke