Deceived Quotes

“Martin breakfasted with Elizabeth and Nancy. The latter treated him with cold civility. As if he cared, Martin thought. Silly bitch—did she think he cared how she treated him?”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“Her look became frantic. “You don’t understand,” she said. “Maybe it’s different in the wild land you come from, Mr. Bouchard. But here gentlemen are always right. And girls like me are always sluts once they have lost their m-maidenhood. That is what I will be called if anyone knows. Or whore. Please, Mr. Bouchard.” Her hands clawed at the lapels of his coat.

“Sh, ma petite,” he said, drawing her into his arms again, soothing her. “Sacré coeur, sometimes I forget that now I am in a civilized nation where maidens who are raped are sluts and ’ores. Civilization is a wonderful thing, n’est-ce pas?”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“after”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“I kept it very quiet and very deep and very secret from all but the inner depth of my heart. I even felt ashamed of it. But I always thought of you.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“Do you love me?" she asked him, lifting her face to his . . . He kissed her. She clung to him, tasting his answer in his mouth.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“She felt a welling of love for him and a sinking of sadness. If only seven years could be erased.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“And you are all the home I will ever long for . . . Now and for the rest of my life even if I do not see you again after tonight.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“I'll never stop loving you. Don't expect it of me.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“Our wedding night," she whispered, and dreams were reborn as she rested her face against his neckcloth.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“There is no other woman as lovely as you . . . And only you can satisfy my soul.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“I have never stopped loving you," he said. "I realized that as soon as I saw you again.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“No, she must not begin to doubt. She hated him. She hated him because he had brought turmoil into her life again. And emotion. And bitter regret for all that might have been. She hated him.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“She might have said yes. It was a shameful admission to have to make even in the privacy of her own thoughts. Perhaps especially there. He exerted a very powerful magic over her. Even more powerful than when she had first known him.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“She thought for one moment that he was going to kiss her and longed for the touch of his lips.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“She remembered—oh, she could not stop remembering.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“The need to cry was almost a pain.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“He was fully aware that it was already too late for simple friendship between them.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“And he had felt the need to see her again, to put a definite end to something that had never ended.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“She could feel the old pain and despised herself for allowing it still to hurt. But how she had loved him!”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“Her heart ached on.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“Despair, he remembered now from an earlier occasion, could hurt as keenly as an open knife wound.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“He had always a sense of waiting—waiting for something to happen, waiting to move on to the next scene of the drama.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“It was as if life had been suspended and she had lost the power to bring it into motion again.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“I want you back," he said. And he abandoned himself to the words he was speaking.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“It would be so easy to forget, so easy to be enticed by an old dream.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“I will treat it as a fantasy. A romantic fantasy. I will make you fall in love with me all over again.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived

“You are a stranger to me, and I am a stranger to myself.”
― Mary Balogh, Deceived