One Wore Blue Quotes

“He caught her arm. “I’m sorry,” he whispered. His blue eyes were intent upon hers. “For I will love you the rest of my life.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“A separate peace, Mrs. Cameron, is so declared. Now, let’s go to see to young Master John Daniel Cameron.” “John Daniel Cameron?” she queried. “Do you like it?” he asked. She leaned back in his arms, delighted, secure. “I love it,” she assured him, and she curled her arms around his neck. “Just as I love his father!”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“I do love you, Jesse, so much. And once it worried me, that I could love a Yankee so thoroughly, so desperately, so completely. But a friend told me something once. He said that I don’t love a Yankee, I love a man. And I do, Jesse, I love you. And the color that you wear can’t change the man that you are. I love that man.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“I hate you, Jesse!” she reminded him. To her surprise, he smiled a slow, anguished, crooked smile. “I know,” he said, and added very softly, “and I still love you.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Angel, indeed. An angel sent from hell to torment his every waking moment and beyond.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Despite your daughter’s very inappropriate laughter at such a fine pack of soldiers for the Confederacy, I have come to ask you for her hand in marriage. No, sir! Your pardon, I take that back! I have come to beg you for her hand in marriage!”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Will you marry me now? Or will you at least think about it? I’ll march soon enough, now that Virginia has seceded, I know that. We’ll be going off to whip those boys in blue. Let me carry the memory of your love into battle with me!”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“No, no, careful, love! Imagine, what would they all think if you suddenly slapped your host upon the dance floor? Your father would be aghast—I would be forced to tell him the truth about our relationship. Anthony would be horrified and honor-bound to come to your rescue to salvage your honor. He would be forced to challenge me. And in the duel I’d have to try damned hard to stay alive and at the same time manage not to kill the poor young fool. Is that what you want, Kiernan? The two of us—or three or more of us—fighting over you?”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“My God, I have missed you!” he whispered. “You can’t imagine what it’s been like. In every drawing room where I have been a guest I’ve listened to the sound of rustling silk, and I’ve prayed that I could turn and see you there. And every damned night I’ve lain awake and thought of you, and even when I’ve slept, my dreams have been plagued by you. Every time I touched a woman’s hair, it seemed coarse in my hands because it was not yours, it wasn’t the color of fire, and it did not have the sheen of satin and the feel of velvet and silk. Words whispered have never been the same, you witch! Damn you. Damn you a thousand times over!”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Kiernan, I love you. I am the man for you, the only one to know you and to love you. But you won’t rule me. Do you understand? I’d give you everything that I can give you, but there are certain things that I cannot give. When you’re ready to accept me for what I am, for what I believe, come to me.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Anthony is far too besotted a fool, Kiernan,” Jesse said bluntly. “He hasn’t been making love to you in dark corners. He allows you to dangle him along at your whim and asks for nothing in return but one of those devastating smiles. Well, I’m not Anthony, Kiernan. I love you, but my mind is my own, and I cannot change what I see as right or wrong for you or for anyone else. Do you understand that?”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“I warned you before not to marry him if he couldn’t kiss you as I did. Now I can warn you that you’ll never have anything like you had tonight with him. Not in a thousand years, Kiernan.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“I thought you said you loved me.” “I can’t love a traitor.” “I’m not a traitor.” “You’re on the wrong side.” “There are no damned sides!” “Then swear!” she told him suddenly. “Swear that you would be on the right side—” “What would the right side be, Kiernan? Tell me that, please, will you?”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Daniel grinned. “Do something!” he told Jesse. “Marry her, before she does decide to marry Anthony Miller.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“I mean it, Kiernan.” “So do I.” “I’ll find you if you’re out, I swear.” “A promise, Jesse, or a warning?” “A threat—and take it that way,” he advised. Then he smiled and lifted his hand to his hat in salute.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Now, please make sure that you keep your very sweet and honorable derriere indoors tomorrow!”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“She should have been scandalized and horrified that he had kissed her so, touched her so, but she wasn’t. It was simply what came between the two of them. There had been something just and sweet and right about it, and she refused to be ashamed of it.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Oh, no, Captain! Keep your distance. You don’t play fair.” He shook his head suddenly. “No, Kiernan, you’re the one who doesn’t play fair.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Take care, Kiernan, with me. Test your powers on that charming almost-fiancé of yours, but not on me. Anything you start, Kiernan, I’ll finish.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Hold out for the best there is, Kiernan. You should have it. Make sure that there’s fire. Maybe there’ll be ice, too, but hold out for the extremes, for the best, the brightest. Don’t accept anything lukewarm. Because you’re fire and ice, and you’re the brightest and the best, Kiernan.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“If he can’t kiss you like that, sweetheart, don’t marry him.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“If he can’t kiss you like this, Kiernan, don’t marry him.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Well now, darlin’,” he drawled softly, and those eyes of his raked over her thoroughly with laughter, humor, and something else. Then his eyes landed upon her own. “You’ve grown up while I’ve been away.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Hello, Miss Mackay. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? But then, a man never knows quite when he’ll run into you, eh, Kiernan?”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Take heed, Miss Mackay, you’re too young to be practicing such a talent for flirtation. Someday, some poor soul may fight back.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Miss Mackay, you are an outrageous little flirt, and I pity the poor young lad who falls for you next!”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“I thought you’d run because of me, Mrs. Miller, like you did before. I won’t mind your being around. I’ll enjoy it. You’re the one who promised never to suffer life with a Yank, remember?”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“Heavens no, Mrs. Miller. It’s war, and I have managed to send men into battle. But I’m a merciful commander—I wouldn’t dream of sending them in after you.” “Then I’m staying.” “Maybe not. I didn’t say that I wouldn’t come in after you myself.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue

“I didn’t start the war, Kiernan.” “But we’re on opposite sides.” “So fight me!” he warned her softly.”
― Heather Graham, One Wore Blue