The Runaway Duke Quotes

“I love you," she murmured.

The words ... it was as though an entire sun had exploded in his chest.

He'd been ridiculous. His thrashing thoughts, his grand confusion and torment and helplessness -- it was only love, had always been love, he supposed. It was no precipice he stood at, or rather precipices have little meaning when one finally acknowledges that one has wings. Connor stepped off.

"I love you, too."

Such grave, inadequate words for what it was he felt.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Runaway Duke

“she had lately come to understand injustice and tricks of fate, and how they could turn you into someone else completely, maybe even turn you into the person you were meant to be.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Runaway Duke

“What happens next?" she whispered.

Connor turned to her and smiled faintly. Always a question, that was Rebecca.

There's more?" he said in mock wonderment

Rebecca dimpled.

You know very well there is more."

Tell me all about it," he encouraged.

In Papa's book—"

Tell me all about it without mentioning your papa.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Runaway Duke

“Rebecca stared back at him, still dazed. She'd forgotten how to speak; it seemed an unimportant skill, anyhow, when such kisses were to be had, when a whole world could be made from a kiss.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Runaway Duke

“When she pulled it out, something tum- bled out along with it: a soft copper lock of her own hair.

She went blank for a moment, thrown oddly off bal ance. The things lined up neatly on the floor in front of her were like words to a sentence in a language she had only begun learning, a sentence punctuated poignantly by a copper curl. They told a story Rebecca sensed she already half knew, she could feel it radiating, increasing in light, on the far reaches of her awareness.”
― Julie Anne Long, The Runaway Duke