"No amount of careful grooming seemed to erase their impression that he was actually a foul and frightening ogre. It was enough to give a fellow self-doubts."
- Celeste Bradley
"It was if the devil himself had devised the perfect earthly torture for Lady Alicia Lawrence. “Now how will I occupy myself when I get to hell?"
"He then, with great presence of mind, put a stop to any further recriminations by kissing her; and his indignant betrothed, apparently feeling that he was too deeply sunk in depravity to be reclaimabl..."
- Georgette Heyer
"I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction"
- Tina Gabrielle
"But marriage is forever.''Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.'Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said.'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, 'though I rather thi..."
- Mary Balogh
"But marriage is forever.''Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.'Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said.'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, though I rather thin..."
"His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea."
"You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, fo..."
"People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it."
"It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary."
- Lisa M. Prysock