Pippa and the Prince of Secrets Quotes

“Pippa, you have to stop,” he bit out. “I can’t hold back—” He tried to pull her off him, and she swatted his hands away. “It’s my turn to taste you.” Her eyes shone with sultry resolve. “Sliding down my throat.” Jesus wept. She’d thrown his own words back at him.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“Christ Almighty, she was going to kill him.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“Exhaling, he untied the mask and threw it aside. He tried to keep his expression nonchalant even though his chest pounded as if he’d run for miles. He studied her for any sign of disgust…but she only smiled. “There you are, Timothy Cullen,” she said. “I’ve missed you.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“God, her vulnerability wrecked him. Made his chest melt and his cock rear to attention. Only Pippa had ever stirred these contradictory needs in him: he wanted to comfort her and screw her senseless at the same time. “You’re more than enough,” he murmured. “You’re everything a man could want.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“I’ve never wanted anyone the way I want you.” “Oh.” Pleasure unfurled at his unequivocal statement. “Why is that?” “Because, sunshine, none of them could hold a candle to the girl I kissed in a bell tower fourteen years ago.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“One day, my dearest girl, you will find the right man as well: someone who makes you realize that you are perfect as you are.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“May I touch you?” He gave a curt nod, and she reached up. He held miserably still as her touch feathered over the undamaged side of his face first, her thumb sweeping over his eyebrow, cheekbone, her fingers trailing along his jaw. She repeated the motion on the other side, his throat tightening as the same light caress now traveled over gnarled ridges and patches of unnatural smoothness. Despite his dulled sensation, he felt as if she were stroking the very heart of him, the place where hope refused to die. Where his dreams waged an agonizing battle with reality.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” she said softly. “Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“When a man tells a woman to stay out of it, does he actually expect her to obey?” Livy mused. “I have always wondered.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“If I may be frank…” Amused, Pippa asked, “Do you know how to be otherwise, dear?” “Hadleigh says I’m as subtle as a brick through a window,” Livy said ruefully.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“Seeing him now, the glowing contentment in his eyes as he kissed Livy before taking his daughter and tucking her in the crook of his arm, Pippa saw the evidence that love—true love—could change people. Heal them. Even if they had made bad choices in their past.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“She stared at him, utterly flummoxed. No man had expressed such earnest interest in her happiness before. Nor had one been so completely and utterly wrong. She didn’t know if she was touched or exasperated.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“We ladies are taught that love and desire must go hand in hand; I call this the Great Lie, one that has been used since the beginning of time to control feminine passion,” Charlie said crisply. “Desire is simply a need…like an appetite for food or drink. Love has naught to do with it; indeed, it can muddy the waters. After all, you see men indulging in lust without emotional attachments. Why should the same not hold true for women?”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“We ladies are taught that love and desire must go hand in hand; I call this the Great Lie, one that has been used since the beginning of time to control feminine passion,” Charlie said crisply. “Desire is simply a need…like an appetite for food or drink. Love has naught to do with it; indeed, it can muddy the waters.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“the last thing she needed was another man in her life. Even if that man looked after urchins who clearly adored him. Even if he had come to her aid. Even if he looked at her with soulful yearning and his touch made her come alive with desire. Gah.”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets

“My memory is not lacking.” “Not a single thing about you is lacking.” She narrowed her gaze. “Are you flirting with me while sporting a bullet wound?”
― Grace Callaway, Pippa and the Prince of Secrets