"Damn, she just kept on surprising him. First with her beauty. Then with the illustrations. He'd been forced to accept that there was more to her character than he'd gleaned from her letters, but none ..."
- Tessa Dare
"It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book."
"Of course one kiss changes things. If it's done right, a kiss changes everything."
"These kisses... they were confessions. Tastes of everything she had stored inside her. Everything she could give a man if he was brave enough to accept. Kiss by kiss, she was baring herself to the sou..."
"You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see your"
"You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone."
"Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it."
"Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid.""Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish."
"Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?"
"No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt."