The Duke Quotes

“He clutched her to him with a desperate strength that almost hurt. "I will love you for your light, if you can love me through the dark times. And that love will be like the clear night sky when the moon is full. Not like the sun....but beautiful and bright enough to find our way.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“Secrets were always covered up and, once revealed, could never again find the darkness.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“She balled her hand into a little fist, her expression turning fierce. “You haven’t any idea the strength it takes to be a woman. In my experience, it is men who are the weaker sex. Either too undisciplined to control their baser, primal instincts or, conversely, they are too fragile to endure the discomfort of honesty or integrity. Yet women endure and survive by whatever means we are able. And still we are either property or playthings. We have as much use in the eyes of the law as a cow or a fertile plot of land. It is not wrong to mistreat us. To objectify us. To shame and demand things of us and bend us to your will. That is your right as a man and our duty as a woman. Is it any wonder the world is in chaos?”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“The countess is barely dressed and receiving guests in her garden. And that other woman, she’s obviously a wanton.” “Aye, that she is.” Something in Ravencroft’s tone prompted Cole to glance up at the man. “You say that like you know her.” “I do. That buxom, wanton wench would be my wife, Mena Mackenzie, the Marchioness of Ravencroft.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“If ye’d met my wife, ye’d understand my need to drag her away from all distraction and keep her naked for days in some warm, exotic place. But I canna do that until my stubborn daughter has bewitched and broken every limp-wristed, useless aristocrat in this godforsaken city.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“You are both fair-haired and slight of build,” Argent assessed. “You wore dresses of comparable color.” “Not so.” She grasped for something, for anything to crush this ridiculous train of speculation. “If you remember, my gown was apricot, and hers is most decidedly coral.” She met a collection of blank stares and profusely cursed the entire male sex. Mostly”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“Cole stilled when his feral eyes found her, roaming every inch as though searching for a wound. The doorway framed him like a portal to purgatory, and he stood like an avenging archangel come to wreak a wrath no less than biblical. The swells of his powerful chest heaved against the white of his shirtsleeves now blotched and stained with blood. The blade on his prosthesis was extended past the motionless metal fingers, and blood dripped from it into a thick crimson puddle on the marble floor.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“His brow furrowed with confounded indignation, lips wet and hard above her as he processed her words between panting breaths of mounting lust. “You interrupted what was possibly the best kiss in the history of the empire to ask such a question,” he said tightly. She loved this arrogant, grumpy beast with all her heart. “I’m about to make love to you, Your Grace, and I don’t want to be interrupted.” The temperature in his eyes flared from molten to volatile. “Your mother forced everyone to go to church to pray for you.” He touched his nose to hers with sweet affection that caused her heart to double in size, simultaneously slipping a hand to wander perilously close to her breasts. “Lovely woman, your mother.” “Bless her pious heart,” Imogen agreed, then arched her body against his, silently pleading for him to resume her ravishment.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“Convention be damned, this next dance belonged to him no matter what it said on her card, and he intended to claim it. Because if he had to watch one more perfumed whelp put his soft hands on her, he’d open throats right in the middle of the Northwalk ballroom.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke

“Millie let out an undignified snort. “I’d wager my entire fortune that is not at all the reason Trenwyth accompanied you tonight.” “Pardon my saying so.” Mena smiled gently. “But it is very clear that Trenwyth would take you on whatever surface you’d permit him to.” “Mena!” Farah laughed. “The uncouth Highlands are certainly rubbing off on you.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke