The Sins of Lord Lockwood Quotes

“On the rare occasions she checked her thoughts before speaking them, it was a grave loss to the world, and a wasted opportunity to marvel at her”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood

“Her smile gutted him. He had forgotten the trick of that smile—how it could spark a light inside a man that made him feel untethered from the earth, or gut him more deeply than a blade”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood

“We ladies are very devious, and could not speak plainly even if we had to spell every word.”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood

“A woman did not only wish to be wooed. Sometimes, God be praised, she wanted to be taken”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood

“He found himself staring at her, abruptly transfixed. Transformed, brain evacuated by a fierce, full-bodied, singular pulse of hunger. Christ. He had forgotten what desire felt like”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood

“But she had been born with a talent for smiling: with the mere curve of her mouth, she could make men stumble and gape, or quail in momentary fear, for reasons they would never manage to explain to themselves”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood

“She was a figure from that distant feudal past in which great ladies had kept and defended lands while their lords went off to slay dragons. This was her island”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood

“Violence and power were but two sides of the same coin; this crowd knew it”
― Meredith Duran, The Sins of Lord Lockwood