Courting Trouble Quotes

“You’ve always been such a boor, Morley. I can’t fathom how we’ve become allies.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“Nothing will happen. Nothing will take you from my arms. Never again. Not if you come to me with your worries and burdens. Not if you let me in to help you. I want to protect you. I want that to be my right and privilege. The whole world could collapse tomorrow and all I’d want is to experience it with you. Would you promise to let me?”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“Correct me if I’m wrong, Doctor, but did you not take an oath to do no harm?” Titus wasn’t a doctor right now. He was a man. A man come to claim his woman, to snatch her out of the jaws of a monster. And then throttle her with his bare hands. “I’m a surgeon,” he hissed. “Which means I know exactly how to carve into you until your voice would give out from the screaming.” Raphael glanced back at Nora with an impressed expression. “I do believe he loves you.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“This is a whole wide city full of people. Hang everyone but you and me.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“You are a clever girl. You don’t really believe there is such a thing as a happy ending, do you?” “Of course I do.” She emitted a hiccupping sigh before taking several hitching breaths. “I believe that sometimes the stars can align. That one change of heart can change the course of fate. That forgiveness and love are possible, even against the most terrible odds…even for someone like you.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“You stop martyring yourself for us or for anyone else. I’ll not have it.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“We were packing the library when a spirited debate over the superiority of romances or mysteries turned into a fencing match with the fireplace implements. Mercy cut her hand.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“She’d thrown herself on a sword, becoming a martyr to misery out of some misguided sense of honor.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“You’ve made your bloody point, Cresthaven. I advise you to not interject into this conversation again.” A finger jabbed in her father’s direction was all it took to press the Baron’s lips together, his mottled skin blanching a little.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“He had the heart of a saint, the body of a god, and the appetite of a libertine.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“It was all a parody. A shadow of what we’d done. Of what I wanted—yearned for—every night of my life, thereafter. I took others to my bed to erase the memory of what my husband did to me, but in my mind. In my heart. I never made love to anyone but you.” She ventured forward, reaching out for him. Feeling bare and raw and exceedingly vulnerable.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“This was love. Sacrifice. Regret. Pain. Love, the purest love, was diving into the lake of brimstone and hellfire, and drowning in it willingly, if only to gain freedom for the one who owned your heart.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“It was a game of theirs, to plan their social escapes. One they’d started to play when the anxiety of a gathering would overwhelm her in the early days of her return to society. She scanned the crowd milling about. “All we’d have to do is melt into this alley. Where should we go, husband? Should we ride in the park?” “I’d love a ride,” he growled against her ear. “But we might get arrested for indecency if we do it in the park.” She swatted his chest,”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble

“Correct me if I’m wrong, Doctor, but did you not take an oath to do no harm?” Titus wasn’t a doctor right now. He was a man. A man come to claim his woman, to snatch her out of the jaws of a monster. And then throttle her with his bare hands.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Courting Trouble