For My Lady's Heart Quotes

“But no monk am I in my head, God grant me pardon," he whispered. His body drew closer, velvet and taut elegance. "My confessor has chastised me oft, and bade me study on my sins at length. And so, lady"--he kissed her, the hunger in it sinking down through her like a comet falling--"I have studied.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart

“To have seen her so was worth a thousand years of burning to him. If he went to Hell for it, he only prayed God would not take away the memory.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart

“They began a dance, the woman and the bird, a swinging and sweeping dance that defied the compass of the earth, marked by the flash of emeralds, the bells, and the white glory of the falcon’s twisting flight as it drove and stooped and chased the toll. Around and around the lure spun, beckoning and evading, mercurial, up and down and doubled back, the falcon keen and nimble in pursuit—an eternity— and yet before Ruck could take his eyes from them, before he could imprint the picture on his mind, before he could overcome the irresistible rise of his heart at the sight of the falcon’s dance, it was over.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart

“She stood with her arms hugged about herself, her brows drawn together in icy disdain, black and arched, delicate as the tips of a nymph’s infernal wings.
“Haps I am a witch,” she said. “I tell thee true, Green Sire—I have cheated demons, and still I am alive.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart

“Keep it. It is thine,” she said as he rose with the diamond between his thumb and fingers. “A token.”
She was smiling. Glowing, her eyes shining with tears of elation. “So thou wilt not forget her flight.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart

“Thou art a fool,” she murmured instead, “to think a man can serve two masters.” She lifted a varvel and let it fall against his armor, smiling. “A splendid fool. Come into my service to stay, be it thy desire.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart