"He smiled. "How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular."
- Meredith Duran
"Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it."
"Or perhaps, despite your brave words to my parents, you've forgotten what love and loyalty look like. They aren't sacraments, Jane, for only God is perfect, only Go deserves our love without judgement..."
"Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting."
"I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain."
"For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!"
"What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions."
"He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, b..."
"You are...beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all."
"I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers."