Dare to Cause a Scandal Quotes

“Yes! Yes, I’ve upset me. I’m such a fool, Laurie, for I never told you. I never told you how truly glad I am that you trapped me and hauled me off to that dreadful great house with all your awful relatives. I love every inch of that over gilded monstrosity and I love every one of your dreadful relatives, especially your wicked father who is really a very bad man, but most of all... oh, most of all, Laurie, I love you. I love you with all my heart and I never, never want to be apart from you or to make you unhappy. I’ve never been in love before though, you see, so I’ve made an awful mull of things, but I promise to do better. I will do better, Laurie, and you’ll see, you need never doubt it. Not ever again.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Cause a Scandal

“Love is like the wind, no one knows where it comes from.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Cause a Scandal

“If anything happens to Arabella, grandmother, you may be sure that you’ll have no heirs from me, for I give you my solemn vow that I’ll not marry again. You’ll have to look to Hugo for the succession.” “You damned fool!” the duke exploded. “That… that popinjay!” the dowager shrieked in disgust. “He couldn’t sire a mooncalf let alone the next duke! You’ll do your duty, boy.” “No,” Bainbridge said, quiet but resolute. “The days when either of you could command me are long gone. I’m no boy, and I love my wife. I tell you both now, if either of you speak ill of her again, I shall leave this God forsaken place and not come back before the two of you are in the ground. The lot of you can go to the devil for all I care, I’ll have nothing more to do with you.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Cause a Scandal

“I’m not the least bit good,” he said, and there was something hard and angry in his voice that made her look up. His dark blue eyes were fierce, burning with intensity. “But I see you, Miss Hunt, I see your worth, and I know there’s not a woman alive who could match you.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Cause a Scandal

“God, she was too innocent for this world. The knowledge burned through him, making him hate his bloodline for all their infamy and violence and wish that he could be better. He would be better, he swore. For her. He could be better for her.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Cause a Scandal