Dangerous to Know Quotes

“Kiss me, Rose” was all I could manage, and my beautiful girl—well, they say a gentleman does not kiss and tell....”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“However, that publisher did nothing with the book but allow dust to collect, and when she applied to have the rights revert to her, she was told that she must return the original ten-pound payment. At that time, she did not undertake the loss. How remarkable that two hundred years after her death, her likeness would appear on the ten-pound note!”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“Our joining, frenzied and quick, casts everything out of focus. The sense of triumph is exhilarating. So is the giddiness. Drunk with love? Drunk with power, more like. ’Tis mine, and mine alone, the power to make her quiver at a touch—”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“One should never marry one’s first love, you know. Too early an attachment gives one’s feelings that much longer to grow stale and bitter.”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“The romantic part of the jilted lover is played to better effect when one’s shirt is not hanging out of one’s breeches.”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“This is my lot in life, it seems: to inspire damsels in distress with wildly romantic notions.”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“When I awoke, sunlight streamed into my room through a gap in the drapes, and I blinked. I found myself sprawled across the bed, still clothed, still lying atop the covers… alone. Only in my dreams had Lady Harlow come to my room.”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“have lied to be with you, my lady,” I said as I pulled her into my arms with a rakish grin, “and risked my godfather’s wrath to be with you. Convince me now that I have not made an error in judgment.”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“The student has surpassed the teacher,”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues

“The truth is, sir...I require a rake. And only the best will do.”
― Christina Boyd, Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues