Up All Night with a Good Duke Quotes

“We all need a little diversion sometimes, and I, too, rely on a good book to help me escape from reality time and time again.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Artemis offered a reassuring smile. “It’s not dreadful at all, and I know exactly what you mean. We all need a little diversion sometimes, and I, too, rely on a good book to help me escape from reality time and time again. I might even venture to say that the reason I took up writing in the first place was that it gave me a fantasy world of my own creation to run away to whenever life seemed too hard.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“How very gracious of you,” returned Artemis over her shoulder. “It’s just a pity that neither of you believed me until it was too late.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Books were never the problem. Ignorance and prejudice and blatant narrow-mindedness were, and the world would be a much better place without them.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“He lowered his voice. “I can think of more interesting ways to fill your time.” “Only my time?” She arched a brow. “I hope you can fill more than that.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“She’d changed out of her evening finery into a robe of sky-blue satin, and as far as he could see, she wore nothing else. At all. Thank God. If he’d had to deal with corsets and crinolines and bloody drawers again, he’d have gone mad.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“I see,” said Artemis carefully. “I take it that she is still willing to receive me? Dominic—I mean, His Grace—informed me that it was all arranged.” As she spoke, she raised her bare left hand to her throat to quite unnecessarily fiddle with the lace of her collar. Drawing Miss Sharp’s attention to her ruby and diamond engagement ring was equally as petty, but Artemis couldn’t seem to help herself. The governess was infuriatingly supercilious.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“She was not besotted, she told herself firmly as another footman led her into an enormous entry hall and then up an imposing marble staircase with exquisitely carved balustrades. No, she was simply brimming with unfulfilled lust.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“One thing was certain: Artemis Jones was no shrinking wallflower. She was more like an arbor rose—beautiful and as beguiling as sin. And despite the fact he was an infamous duke, she was unafraid to aim a well-deserved barb or two his way. She was definitely a refreshing change from the usual fare on offer at society balls.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Alas,” said Artemis with a deep sigh, “it is a truth never universally acknowledged that a single woman—whether she is in possession of a good fortune or not—doesn’t necessarily want or even need a husband.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“As luck or misfortune would have it, it also appears that whenever we meet, I’m dripping wet.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Good Lord. Was everyone in London set against Mary Wollstonecraft? The poor woman had been dead nigh on sixty years.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“It was as though her imagination had conjured him up—the epitome of a darkly brooding, Byronic hero who’d stepped out of the pages of one of her own books.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke