Cate C. Wells
- Liberating (from Against a Wall)
Toby did me a lot of favors when he dumped me six weeks ago. The biggest one is that I don't have to watch any more videos of stupid crap that I don't care about. I only watch the stupid videos I want to watch now. It's very liberating.
Kerrigan Byrne
- The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo
She sang to him sometimes, her voice high and sweet and... unencumbered by talent or pitch of any kind. Christ, she really was terrible. But every time she finished, he promised the devil his soul for one more song.
Mary Balogh
- The greatest matrimonial prize (from More than a Mistress
You believe yourself to be the greatest matrimonial prize in Christendom and therefore despise all those whom you believe to be angling after you. There are some sensible ladies in this world, I would have you know." He pursed his lips again, a gleam of definite amusement in his eyes now. "For my pride's sake, Jane," he said, "might we extend that to include the Islamic world as well as just Christendom?
Tessa Dare
- Then I figured out the truth (from Goddess of the Hunt)
For the first year I knew you, perhaps two - I thought you were put on this earth simply to vex me." His eyebrows lifted. "And after two years?" "Oh, then I figured out the truth," she said as they walked out of the room. "I was put on this earth to vex you.
Kerrign Byrne
- Protection (from Tempting Fate)
She whirled on him. "I don't need protection." He pressed his lips closed, knowing that now wasn't the time to disagree. Her expression flattened as she crossed her arms over her chest. "I realize I hired you for your protection physically. But I don't need to be protected from information, is what I meant."
Ruby Dixon
- What we should and shouldn't do (from When She Belongs)
You should stay back." I don't like that she's going to be in danger. "You shouldn't have ripped your arm off and beat someone with it, but we'll talk about what we should and shouldn't do later," she tells me in a prim voice. "For now, we need to go kill another alien.
Mary Balogh
- There is an end to suffering (Someone to Cherish)
Sometimes what seem to be the worst things that happen in our lives turn out actually to be the best. He had shared something painful from his own life, she guessed, in order to distract her from her own. Or to remind her that everyone suffers in the course of a lifetime. No one is immune. And perhaps to remind her that there is an end to suffering.
Mary Balogh
- Dash it all (Someone to Honor)
She had never encountered masculinity before. Men, yes. Handsome men, yes. Attractive men, yes. Masculinity, no. Not raw masculinity, anyway. Not naked chests and ... Oh dash it all, she really was a prude.
Mary Balogh
- You precious idiot (Someone to Trust)
He took his place beside her and gathered her into his arms before saying a word to her. He pulled loose the ribbons of her bonnet and tossed the garment onto the opposite seat. He held her head against his shoulder and rested his cheek on top of it. He had no idea if she needed to be gathered in or not. But he needed to gather. "Idiot," he said. "You precious idiot, Elizabeth." "Thank you," she said.
Amanda Milo
- Princess (from Contaminated)
Come on, princess, we're doing this. We don't have any other options." With painful dignity, I mutter, "If my translation device is right, and referring to me as princess means you think I'm a self-important, temperamental person with superior tastes and a peculiar difficulty to be pleased; then you're correct, and I take no offense.
Mia Vincy
- One more story (from A Beastly Kind of Earl)
No one would care about one more story from one more woman, one more lost wanderer, trying to be heard. A lone woman, saying, "but listen, please listen, this matters, this is my life."
Mia Vincy
- The past (from A Beastly Kind of Earl)
I always thought one could not rewrite the past, but it seems the past is not set in stone. We learn new things about our history, and view it from a fresh perspective, and when we see things we hadn't known were there, everything changes.
Mia Vincy
- Your eyes(from A Beastly Kind of Earl)
"Your eyes." She smiled, playful and warm. "Has no one ever told you? That in the sunlight, your eyes are the color of brandy." He was as silly as a girl at her first ball, to let such flattery affect him. Yet his chest swelled with undeserved pride, as though the color of his eyes was the greatest achievement of his life.
