The Ghosts of Christmas Past Quotes

“Darling?” she remarked. “When have I ever been that?” “Are you stating an objection?” “I…No.” Heavens he was in the strangest of moods tonight. “It’s new, that’s all. Normally, I’m your whore, or your mistress, or Miss Rushdale.” “Or my nightingale.” “Only if you’re feeling poetic.” “Then obviously you’ve found a way to inveigle your way into my heart and I’m growing soft and foolish as a result.” “What heart?” She crossed her arms. “Vaughan, if this is a plan to drive me away by being nice, it won’t work.” His smile dazzled her as it stretched wide his lips and lit the centres of his eyes. “It’s not a ploy.”
― Madelynne Ellis, The Ghosts of Christmas Past

“matrimony has never been about fun, or enjoying one’s self. It’s a business agreement; she signs over everything she has in exchange for the use of your name, and you get to use her as a brood mare.” “What a foul and hideous thing to suggest.” “It’s a hideous world that we live in.”
― Madelynne Ellis, The Ghosts of Christmas Past