My One True Highlander Quotes

“No class in boarding school or finishing school had ever dealt with how to avoid or fight against a kidnapping. And wrestling and fighting were so completely unacceptable they weren’t even mentioned. Several headmistresses would be receiving a sternly worded letter if she survived this.”
― Suzanne Enoch, My One True Highlander

“Well, once ye ask me to grant ye a wish, lass, there’s nae stopping me.”
“You haven’t let me go,” she reminded him.
“That’s because ye being here is the one thing I wish,” he muttered, resuming his walk through the foyer.”
― Suzanne Enoch, My One True Highlander

“She demanded to see ye and then turned her back on me. Now she willnae speak, and she’s better at silence than ye ever were.”
Marjorie allowed herself a brief smile. “Oh, dear. She’s given you the cut direct. It’s the greatest show of disdain a lady can give a gentleman.”
He lifted a straight eyebrow. “Ye’ve nae cut-directed me,” he returned. “I recall a slap direct, though.”
She’d begun to wonder if he was baiting her on purpose. “There’s no such thing. And a slap isn’t ladylike. I blame you for inspiring my misbehavior, though.”
His grin warmed her insides. “I’ll accept that responsibility. And I’ll be encouraging ye again, I imagine.”
Desire touched her, heady and welcome. But she was still a prisoner, and until that altered, she couldn’t be certain how much of this was her free will, and how much she merely wanted it to be. “Perhaps a cut direct would teach you some manners, sir.” With a sniff she preceded him up the stairs.
Graeme caught hold of her elbow and pulled her around to face him. With her a step above him, for once they stood eye to eye. “Ye can turn yer back on me, mo boireann leomhann, but dunnae stop talking. I like the sound of yer voice.” On the tail end of that, he leaned in and kissed her.”
― Suzanne Enoch, My One True Highlander

“Is there anything else ye require, aside from yer freedom and a coach with four white horses to carry ye away from here?”
“The horses don’t have to be white,” she returned. “I’m not particular.”
― Suzanne Enoch, My One True Highlander

“Heaven help them all if that man was solely responsible for educating his brothers—though that did explain everyone’s liberal profanity.”
― Suzanne Enoch, My One True Highlander

“Marry her? Ha. She'd jump out the window first.”
― Suzanne Enoch, My One True Highlander