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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4ae57e0 | He was a being of action and vitality, and when he moved, when he smiled, he became almost impossible to resist. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 802f826 | For a moment she studied the sketch. It had been done in pencil and the artist was very skilled. The single sharp line that edged her nose, the delicate shading on her bottom lip, the suggestion of light reflected off her forehead. In the sketch she lay asleep and peaceful- and beautiful. Iris had never thought of herself as beautiful. That word was for the lauded belles of society. The women who walked into ballrooms and made conversations.. | iris-and-raphael sketches | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 94c5337 | We all know that we'll die someday, but believing it is another thing entirely. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 29798fd | He thought he saw her smile waver when she read it, then she was hugging him tightly. "You're the one who needs to take care of yourself. Your escape is still all the news. They'll be searching for you." She drew back to look at him, and to his consternation he saw that she had tears in her eyes. "I couldn't bear to lose you again." He bent and kissed her forehead. Even if he could speak there was nothing he could say to comfort her." | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 90d7418 | BUT HOW, EXACTLY, did one go about seducing a husband one hardly knew? | seduce | Elizabeth hoyt | |
| e5be648 | Well, Scarborough cares, doesn't he? Maximus doesn't--not really. No doubt he's a bit compelled by the chase, but if he doesn't win"--she shrugged her shoulders--"he'll simply find another suitable heiress. She--Lady Penelope herself--doesn't really matter to him. And if it comes right down to it, wouldn't you chose passion--however old--over dispassion?" -- | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 36555ca | Yet she could imagine him so--intent, focused on his goal, his woman. He'd guard his chosen mate, make her both fear and long for his attention. She shivered. He would be relentless in his pursuit, unmerciful in his victory. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| e982736 | Oh, how she wanted this man! She wanted to hold him like this tomorrow and fifty years hence. She wanted to be by his side every morning when he woke, she wanted his to be the last voice she heard before she fell asleep at night. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| cc70d2a | You're not to go wading in my pond again," he said. She shrugged and picked up her shoes and stockings where they lay on the path. "Very well, Your Grace, but it's a great pity. I should've liked to go swimming." | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 3015b0b | Would it make a difference if I were bothered? I have some other skills not usually seen in ladies: swimming, as I told you, and how to shoot a gun. I can bargain down a butcher to within an inch of his life. I know how to make soap and how to put a bill collector off. I can do mending but not embroidery, can drive a cart but not ride a horse, know how to grow cabbages and carrots and even make them into a nice soup, but I haven't the least.. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| bcc85d0 | Last season Penelope was persuaded that a live bird would make an altogether unique accessory." Was she bamming him? "A bird." "A swan, in fact." She looked quite grave. If, in fact, she was playing some type of silly game with him, she hid it well. But then one such as she had innumerable occasions to learn to hide her thoughts and feelings. It was almost a requirement, in fact. "I never noticed Lady Penelope with a swan." She glanced swif.. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| a43fe98 | I'll be damned if I'm going to miss the overture and finale when I've payed good money for it... You can go, but I'm staying. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 5db02d1 | when men believed too strongly, it made them cruel. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| f7ea73e | And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious English theatre. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| bd9e6a0 | Don't rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 17d3fb0 | Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 54bb738 | Gotham admired Maeve. By day she managed money, and did it brilliantly, but she didn't find it satisfied her intellect. She spoke four languages. She played the piano seriously well. And she read books. Lots of them. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 904d41b | And he glanced down at Mercy beside him, and saw in her face such radiant goodness, such a calm certainty, that it seemed to him that if he could only be with her all his life, he should know a love, and happiness, and peace that he had never known before. | everlasting-love lasting-love love true-love unconditional | Edward Rutherfurd | |
| 69141d0 | Never mind,' Gertchen said with a smile, 'you'll have to be pagan today. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 6f83064 | We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English? | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 1247ef9 | A New Yorker can never be beat, Gorham, because he gets right back up again. Remember that. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 1fc2f06 | We have all been robbed of the land we have loved for a thousand years. Do you not see that, Welshman? Can you not imagine his rage? We were not even conquered. We were deceived. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 1cc3cd8 | The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea. | tudor | Edward Rutherfurd | |
| e66c37d | Imagine. Freedom. Always. | always-and-forever forever freedom imagine | Edward Rutherfurd | |
| 8e7d719 | About the nobles--not just de Cygne, all of them. They don't care. Just remember that. Do what you have to do with them, because they have the power. I don't know if they'll always have it, but they do now, and they'll have it as long as you live, my son. So don't ever go against them. But just remember, no matter what they say, don't ever trust them. Because they don't care about you, and they never will, because you're not one of them." H.. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| fb0b8af | Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.' 'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio," Sean softly objected. 'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet." | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 44615a0 | Give in to your passions and they will lead you to the most preposterous conclusions--passions make a fool of reason. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 6e37f5c | Of course there are gay Betas: the Beta Male boyfriend is highly prized in the gay community because you can teach him how to dress yet you can remain relatively certain that he will never develop a fashion sense or be more fabulous than you.) | Christopher Moore | ||
| b2c7364 | Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain and suffering This is what Death is. --The Book of Living and Dying (The Tibetan Book of the Dead) | Christopher Moore | ||
| 313d017 | Tuck watched the sun bubble into the ocean. Columns of vertical cumulus clouds turned to cones of pink cotton candy, then as the sun became a red wafer on the horizon, they turned candy-apple red, with purple rays reaching out of them like searchlights. The water was neon over wet asphalt, blood-spattered gunmetal--colors from the cover of a detective novel where heroes drink hard and beauty is always treacherous. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 6c2f5e5 | No era tanto que las manecillas del tiempo se hubieran detenido alli, sino mas bien como si se hubieran levantado, exasperadas, y el reloj hubiera exclamado: "!Venga, cono! Yo me largo de aqui"." | Christopher Moore | ||
| 39b960b | Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. | Christopher Moore | ||
| c84b2c6 | Funny how the illusion of safety can make us careless. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 5bfb55b | Mr. Asher, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." "No, ma'am, I'm going to have to insist that you pass away, this instant. You're overdue." | Christopher Moore | ||
| 5f801e2 | In the East they taught us that all suffering comes from desire, and that rough beast would stalk me through my life, but on that afternoon, and for a time after, I touched grace. | Christopher Moore | ||
| a1072ee | Joshua and I tried to engage Joy in conversation several times during the journey to Kabul, but she was cranky and abrupt and often just rode away from us. "Probably depressed that she's not torturing me," I speculated. "I can see how that might bring her down," said Joshua. "Maybe if you could get your camel to bite you. I know that always brightens my mood." I rode on ahead without another word. It's wildly irritating to have invented som.. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 5cbf939 | Steady and righteous we may be, my friend, but without courage to risk ourselves for our brother, we are but politicians--blustering whores to rhetoric. | Christopher Moore | ||
| fa51524 | I so adored her when she let her warrior queen armor fall, and came, silly and giggling, into my arms. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 1e712a5 | The two had been together since they were little girls, and so loved and hated each other like sisters. | sisters venice | Christopher Moore | |
| c891f92 | Does a broken heart know from a different location? | Christopher Moore | ||
| 05a2f73 | Snake eyes!" the croupier said. "Lizard dick!" Coyote shouted back. This sent me to convulsions." | Christopher Moore | ||
| 54f2295 | The night was crisp and the stars shone with a cold blue light like loneliness or infinity. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 163838a | Joshua, my memory of Maggie isn't about what happened the night before we left. I didn't go to see her thinking that we would make love. A kiss was more than I expected. I think of Maggie because I made a place in my heart for her to live, and it's empty. It always will be. It always was. She loved you. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 5a5c0a1 | And that continued for quite a while until the adventurer admitted that it IS an accepted fact among monsters and giants of all stripes that Englishmen are delicious. | humor | Christopher Moore |