Eloisa James Quotes
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Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.
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I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.
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I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.
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I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.
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Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.
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I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
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I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.
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You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.
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Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
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He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.
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There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
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Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
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I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.
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Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.
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I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.
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I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.
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Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
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Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.
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Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
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You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?
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They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.
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I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.
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Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.
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Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.