The Legend of Lyon Redmond Quotes

“Before him and since he’d gone away, she’d either contracted or ever-so-subtly contorted her very being to accommodate nearly everybody else. She was only ever wholly herself with him.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Legend of Lyon Redmond

“I have learned that everyone else in the world is boring except you.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Legend of Lyon Redmond

“Oh, I’m bowed, but unbroken.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Legend of Lyon Redmond

“Love is like a loaded musket,” he mused. “And yet it’s available to everyone. It’s always . . .” He mimed thrusting out a gun. “‘Here you are! Try not to kill yourself or others with it.’ They oughtn’t allow young people near it.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Legend of Lyon Redmond

“it was understood that the word “Redmond” would be treated in their house rather as though someone had silently broken wind in company. Its occurrence was distasteful but occasionally unavoidable, and while it could be politely ignored, it was certainly not encouraged or enjoyed.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Legend of Lyon Redmond

“He just hadn’t expected to have his equilibrium roughly jostled by a pair of blue eyes this evening. He couldn’t remember ever seeing eyes quite that color before. So achingly lovely they made him restless. He felt oddly as though he needed to do something about them.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Legend of Lyon Redmond