Lady Darcie > Lady Darcie's Quotes

“Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?"
For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?"
But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”
― Julia Quinn, The Lost Duke of Wyndham

“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”
― Julia Quinn, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.”
― Julia Quinn, The Lost Duke of Wyndham

“Weakness never got anyone anywhere.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?”
― Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love

“He smacked the heel of his hand against his forhead, as if that could knock the mental picture out of his head. Hell, he though irritably, he didn't want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window.”
― Julia Quinn, Brighter Than the Sun

“Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.”
― Julia Quinn, To Catch an Heiress

“I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.”
― Julia Quinn, What Happens in London

“Olivia: You didn't even know I was there!
Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.”
― Julia Quinn, What Happens in London

“James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"
Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.”
― Lisa Kleypas

“From the very first time she'd been able to find the chinks in his armor”
― Lisa Kleypas

“Why? Why did you do this to me?" "He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too." "That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why?" He repeated on a sob? "Why did you-"
You wouldn't take me to New York"
His mouth dropped open "NEW YORK?" he shouted. "You did all this because I wouldn't take, you to New York!”
― Julie Garwood

“I thought you were a white knights who put great store in chivalry. It's not the least chivalrous of you to try to seduce me.”
― Nicole Jordan, To Tame a Dangerous Lord

“It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.”
― Nicole Jordan, To Tame a Dangerous Lord

“He was a warrior, a modern-day white knight.”
― Nicole Jordan, To Tame a Dangerous Lord

“I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.”
― Nicole Jordan

“In her own uniquely spirited way, she had pierced his armor and burrowed unerringly into his heart”
― Nicole Jordan, To Tame a Dangerous Lord

“And she felt raw with love for him-her possessive, protective, warrior knight; her dangerous lord who had given his heart over to her to protect to keep safe. ”
― Nicole Jordan, To Tame a Dangerous Lord

“A castle sat in the background, turrets flying a minuscule emblem in the foreground sat a lady, her skirts adorned with picked blossoms "A castle," Helena murmured, "fit for a princess, except that the prince has escaped.”
― Karen Ranney, Upon a Wicked Time: A Regency Historical Romance of Passion and Determination

“They locked gazes in that moment, the mother and the rake. Neither doubted that a battle had been joined”
― Karen Ranney, Upon a Wicked Time: A Regency Historical Romance of Passion and Determination

“It was not the time to recall all those really horrifying nursery stories she'd read, Bluebeard, Babes in the Wood, Little Red Riding Hood. Why is it that children's stories are so filled with monsters like wolves and witches who eat children, and men who kill their wives? And to think, that people actually sat and told their children such things.”
― Karen Ranney, Upon a Wicked Time: A Regency Historical Romance of Passion and Determination

“Win," Leo said, "you'll burn the house down, just after it's been rebuilt. Give me the bloody matchbox."

She shook her head resolutely.

Are we starting a new springtime ritual?" Leo demanded. "The annual burning-of-the-manse?" Come to your senses, Win.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise

“For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”
― Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?”
― Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

“The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter