Don't Tempt Me Quotes

“He cleared his throat, "Zoe, i think you said you love me."
"I did say it. I do love you with all my heart."
"I see." There was a long pause, then he said, "For how long has this been going on?"
"I don't know," she said, "Sometimes i think it started a long, long time ago."
"You might have mentioned it."
"I didn't want to encourage it," she said, "I thought it was a bad idea.”
― Loretta Chase, Don't Tempt Me

“There was the deep blue sea of her eyes, and there was he, wanting to drown.”
― Loretta Chase, Don't Tempt Me

“Miss, I’m sure lots of women think of running away when men disappoint us. But if all of us was to actually do that, there wouldn’t be a woman left in London.”
― Loretta Chase, Don't Tempt Me

“Perhaps he will say, ‘That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice given up, I wonder?”
― Loretta Chase, Don't Tempt Me

“Do you remember little Zoe Octavia Lexham?' he said.
His aunt cast her pale blue gaze in the direction of the great chandelier, as though that was where she kept her memory. 'Zoe Octavia,' she said.”
― Loretta Chase, Don't Tempt Me