Lady Derring Takes a Lover Quotes

“Rough language, drinking, spitting, or smoking will not be tolerated in the drawing room when ladies are present, and will be fined one pence per word. We've a jar, you see."

"A jar." He said this with every evidence of fascination.

"But we also have a withdrawing room for gentlemen, in which they can unleash their baser impulses in case the effort of restraint becomes too much to bear."

Lady Derring was very dry.

"What a relief to hear. Tethering instincts wears a devil out."

He was rewarded with a smile, one of delightful, slow, crooked affairs, as if she just couldn't help herself, and he, for a moment, could not have formed words for admiring it.”
― Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover

“How had it never occurred to him the peril in which women walked every day, even the most pampered of them? How valiant the simple act of being a woman was in so many ways.”
― Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover

“everyone, to some extent, needed to be needed and appreciated for the things they liked best about themselves, and for fine qualities they might not even realize they possessed.”
― Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover

“I should be honored if you would dance with me, Lady Derring,” Mr. Farraday said, because he possessed excellent manners and because Delilah was smiling sweetly at him and he was as putty in her hands. But then, in the hands of the right woman, Mr. Farraday was the sort who would be putty for the rest of his days.”
― Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover

“Delilah had been transferred from her father’s household to her husband’s like crated porcelain.”
― Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover

“They regarded each other somberly, making internal adjustments to accommodate the mere glorious fact of each other.”
― Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover