It Started With a Scandal Quotes

“He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger.”
― Julie Anne Long, It Started With a Scandal

“And home, Elise, is anywhere love is. Any you are my love.”
― Julie Anne Long, It Started With a Scandal

“the firelight threw his shadow nearly to where she stood at the door. Elise took an unconscious step back from it, as though it were a spill of lava.”
― Julie Anne Long, It Started with a Scandal

“Fallen woman." The term made a sort of poetic sense. Once the fall started, it seemed it never stopped.”
― Julie Anne Long, It Started With a Scandal

“Her predicament (the word she had come to prefer in her mind, rather than "circumstances") had turned her into quite a philosopher, when by nature she'd always been a pragmatist. For instance, one allegedly wasn't rewarded for all of the good one did until on departed the Earthly Plane. But if you committed one (albeit epic) transgression, a lifetime of damnation seemed required.”
― Julie Anne Long, It Started With a Scandal

“Only two things kept her from loathing him.
The expression on his face when he'd said, "France."
And the expression on his face when he'd said, "home.”
― Julie Anne Long, It Started With a Scandal

“You wagered you could indulge passion and receive trust and honor in return, and lost.”
― Julie Anne Long, It Started with a Scandal