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She had stripped away her own illusions for him, and that was as seductive a thing as any woman could do.

I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them.

Because if we're on the road to hell, we're going to dance the whole damn way and give them something to talk about when we're gone.

sausages. Behind

We are mere humans, Veronica. We are destined to prefer beauty to ugliness." His

You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.

In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

He smiled. "I think a blonde. Anything with black hair has always been trouble for me.

Everyone knows the Devil takes care of his own.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

She rose suddenly and put out

I slammed the door in her face and applied my bloody shoe to the lurkers in the bathtub,

people who had neglected my acquaintance during my widowhood. Widows were skeletons at the feast, dampening everyone else's pleasure,

If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed.

To walk away from something is only half the picture. What are you walking towards?

Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it
excessively.

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.

To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.

Have you not yet learned that it is easier to pull a star down from the heavens than to bend a woman to your will?

After all, I might not intend to use him for a plaything, but I could still appreciate looking through the toy-shop window.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both. If

You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.

He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.

Religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.

As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.

But this is a thing that I know
to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

There is always a pony,

He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.

One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.

Life is too uncertain ... You must seize happiness where you find it.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.

Our motto is Audeo. I dare. Dare to take the life you want in your own two hands and do not let it go, do you hear me?

I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.

I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me.

Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.

When the light has fled but the stars have not yet shown themselves. That is the gloaming, the loveliest and saddest hour of the day.

Is that right A cattle baron It sounds strange.

The world would be a rather better place if we looked only for God in one another.
Harry Cavendish

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

She had the face of a chocolate box Madonna and larceny in her heart.

I'd had my heart broken, you see. Fell in love with the wrong chap and he crushed me right down to the bedrock. Nothing left but humiliation.

Yes, but you usually aren't ...
Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.

Aunt Nell used to say it was not decent to have violet eyes, that they were a telltale sign of bad nature, like ginger hair or a hunchback.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

He smiled again. "Your reputation undoubtedly precedes you."
I bristled. "I am not that curious!"
"You are curious as any cat, my love ...

A woman could love a jackass. She could not love a son of a bitch. Many have tried, Gideon. Many have tried.