Fortune Favors the Wicked Quotes

“He wanted Charlotte's happiness more than his own. But how much greater would his own be if they were together? Somehow, sometime---maybe when she flirted with him over sour ale, maybe when she bandaged his arm---she had come to rest upon his heart.
Somehow, he had come to love her.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“Any place could be a cage. And maybe, with the right person, any place could be a home.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“You're babbling," she said. "Go back to the part about making a home with someone you love."
His lips curved. "Did you like that part?"
"I did," she admitted, "like that part."
"Good. I like it too.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“How can I know life with me won't become a cage to you?"

"Because I choose it---that is, if you'll have me. It makes all the difference to leave when one wishes, and to go where one wishes. Not to be getting away from something, but to be going somewhere you want to be. To a home. With someone I love.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“Let me help," said Benedict. "Let me do this for you."

He took the spade from her hand, allowing her to step back and stand beside Maggie. To slip an arm around her crying daughter.

With smooth, slow movements, he turned over the earth. Quietly, doing what needed to be done with a graciousness that meant everything.

And that was when she realized: she had fallen in love with him.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“Awful fondness you people have for knives. It's really not right.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“She did not know what sort of person he was. But she thought---she hoped---that he would hold her trust as the fragile, precious thing it was.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“He flicked his fingers out, just a whisper of a touch against the back of her hand. "You are brave, Miss Perry."
"I am what I have had to be, Mr. Frost." Her hand turned beneath his, and for a second they were palm against palm. "As are you.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“You can't hide and pretend to be someone you're not,Pearl. You can never belong to anyone else."
She set her jaw, refusing to flinch or look away. "Anyone besides myself, you mean? That's true. Though it was always true.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“But eventually I felt the urge to do something more than pick up knowledge for its own sake. Which was why I left off studying after a year and began hunting for something else to do.” “And on what did you settle?” asked Charlotte. “Traveling.” “What good is that?” Mrs. Perry, this time. “What good is the world, you ask? I cannot say until I have been to every corner of it.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked