Scandal's Bride Quotes

“..the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for all time. Which means creating and building a family-defending the family that is, and creating the next generation. Because it's the next generation that's our future. Without securing that future, material success is no real success at all.”
― Stephanie Laurens, Scandal's Bride

“I was at a very select gathering in a hunting lodge in Leicestershire. How the devil she knew where to find me I really don’t like to think. It’s a sad day when one can’t even escape to a select, supposedly secret orgy without having one’s mother summon one—without a verbal blink.”
― Stephanie Laurens, Scandal's Bride