Tempting Fate Quotes

“Miss Felicity, if my manhood could be threatened by learning something from a woman, then I wasn’t much of a man to begin with.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“And to have her hands roaming his bare skin? He’d never been a religious man, but he’d found a new goddess to worship. Because someday, they’d all be nothing but dust and shadows, but his dust would have mingled with divinity for a moment.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“This man. He claimed to have no children. No family. And it seemed like a travesty that the world would keep existing without his child in it. What a waste of all that masculine perfection. Dear lord, how alarming that her body seemed to be petitioning for the job without her permission.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“She turned away from him, needing a moment to compose herself after the sight of him with a drooling, chubby infant caused an explosion of butterfly wings in the vicinity of her womb.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“You can’t know that; you’re not done with the book.” “All romances end like that.” “Why read them if you know the ending?” She turned to look up at him, her expression both playful and profound. “Because one likes to watch the journey unfold. We all know how life ends, don’t we? But we don’t live it to hurry toward death. It’s the matter in the middle that’s the most important. Besides, I know romance might not be the most respected subject, but there are times when one needs to know that at least in one story, everything ends as it should… happily.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“A man like Gareth Severand blushed? Had there ever been anything more endearing on this entire earth?”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“I… only feel safe when I’m with you. But I don’t need you to worship me, Gabriel, I don’t want to fall off this pedestal I’m on. Because, I’m the broken one. And I have no real reason to be. My fretting will drive you mad, if my snoring doesn’t first. I have those fits— those spasms of helpless terror that make no sense and reduce me to nothing without warning. My greatest enemy is often my own mind, the one thing you can’t protect me from.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“Woman,” Felicity corrected. “I’m a woman. I want you to acknowledge that, Gabriel Sauvageau. I am a woman, and just because I’m innocent does not mean that I am incapable of desire. Of understanding and expressing it just as well or better than you.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“You are capable of things I’ve never before seen in this world. You’ve taught me something as I’ve watched you. That strength— real strength— is quiet. And that nothing is so powerful as gentility. To remain soft in a hard world, that takes immense courage. Courage few people possess.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“Your suitor/cousin is returning.” He thrust his chin in that direction. The bite in his voice really did make a blood connection with Bainbridge sound like some sort of perversion. “He’s a distant cousin,” she found herself defending.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“Felicity was a cool and quiet breeze in contrast to her sister’s bluster. The gentle rustle of leaves, the swish of long grass, and the flap of a hummingbird’s wings. She was the music that one must be still and quiet to hear.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“He’d never been a religious man, but he’d found a new goddess to worship. Because someday, they’d all be nothing but dust and shadows, but his dust would have mingled with divinity for a moment.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“I barely knew my mother, and I admired my father, but no, I do not miss his influence in my life. He was a hard man, critical and tempestuous, and his presence caused me no end of distress. He and my mother were devout in their faith. Zealots, some called them. He allowed us no joy or ease or freedom, and, if I’m honest, I’ve come to appreciate those things in his absence.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“Who upset you?” he demanded. She lifted a creamy shoulder. “No one. Everyone. I-I just… I don’t have anything to say to these people. And, if I’m honest, I don’t want to hear what they have to talk about either. I don’t care about gossip or politics, fashion or scandal. And they don’t care about botany or books. They all hate each other and yearn to impress each other in this perverse and endless circle of deceit, envy, and need.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate