Mysterious Miss Channing Quotes

“I am your protector," he said softly, one hand wrapping around her waist, the other moving to remove leaves and twigs from her hair. "I am your knight. I would kill with my bare hands any man who dared to touch you without your consent. I would go to the ends of the earth for you. I WOULD SLAY DRAGONS FOR YOU.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“You have been driving slowly mad since the first time I saw you, so that is nothing new.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“Why you?” he repeated, lifting his hands to cup her face. “How could it be anyone else?”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“Dammit, I can’t concentrate. You’re so beautiful,” he threw at her, sounding accusatory, like she was beautiful on purpose to spite him.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“Don’t you understand, angel? Anytime you’re around a man with eyes in his head, your virtue is always at risk.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“Why then had he felt that damned tug on his heart when she’d stepped into the room? Granted, it wasn’t the only part of him he’d felt a tug in, but that he could understand.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“He was dangerous. And very handsome. So she would disapprove of him in public and happily ogle him when nobody was looking.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing