A Viscount's Proposal Quotes

“When anyone but God tells me I can or cannot, should or should not do something, I get a distinct desire to rebel.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“Except I was hoping someday to see you standing on a ship's deck in your shirtsleeves with a cutlass between your teeth."

"Maybe it can be arranged”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“He wasted his disapproval on her, for she cared not a whit.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“I'm proud of my carefree behaviour [...] I am boisterous, when I choose to be, and simply because I don't behave like a wan and fainting female who has not a thought in her head except try to attract an eligible suitor [...] I shall not conform to how you or anyone else tells me I should behave. I am answerable only to God.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“Edward watched her go and told himself he did not feel unsettled or in any way affected by her.
When had he started lying to himself?”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“It was all ridiculous. Society didn’t care if you did something immoral. Society only insisted that you do it quietly and discreetly. And whenever there was gossip to be told, there was no shortage of people who wanted to hear it—and spread it. Hypocrites they were, and yet they had the nerve to accuse innocent people.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“Then when he’d lashed out at her and accused her of ruining reputations, which had not been justified, she realized that one of three things had taken place: she had upset him far more than she had intended, he was neither gentlemanly nor gallant, or the third possibility, his lashing out at her had more to do with someone or something else than it did with her.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal

“Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.”
― Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal