Desperately Seeking a Duchess Quotes

“Earning something with your hands . . . is an accomplishment. Having it handed to you through the hard work of others is mere luck . . .”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess

“You cannot see something if you don’t know it is there,” she said simply. “There’s a difference between ignorance and willful ignorance.” Cailin leaned in. “It is what you do when you have your eyes opened, how you choose to live your life with newly acquired information, that matters.”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess

“Are you unaccustomed to people helping for no reason than because they wish to?” “I am. That is not the way of Polite Society.” How sadly matter-of-fact he was. “Well, that is the way of mining towns, Your Grace.” In fact, she’d failed to properly appreciate those displays of support that came for no other reason than because the men and women there inherently believed people helped others.”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess

“I want to marry you, Courtland."
He froze. "Did you...?"
She smiled a cheeky little grin. "Ask you to marry me? I did."
His lips curved up, and he folded his arms around her, drawing her close. "Cailin Audley, you stole my proposal."
Cailin looped her arms around his neck, and going up on tiptoe, brought her lips close to his. "Is that a 'yes,' your Grace?"
His smiled widened. "That is a 'yes.”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess

“Stunned eyes flew to him. "You're a romantic, Courtland?" she asked softly.
Was it surprise there? Or worse... pity?
His cheeks flushed. "No." Or he hadn't been. Before her.”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess

“Sadness glimmered in her eyes, and he would have traded part of his soul to Satan to erase that look from her expression.”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess

“but he was a moth and she was the flame, and he understood at last why those creatures were content to burn.”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess

“It was as though she had her smallest finger on the earth's axis and dipped it, knocking a steady ground out from under him.”
― Christi Caldwell, Desperately Seeking a Duchess