Eloisa James Quotes
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It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.
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Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
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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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Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.
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In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.
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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.
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God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.
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Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.
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Life does not always gives us the choices that we want.
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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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My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.
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If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.
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A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
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If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.
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We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.
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She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.
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He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.
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Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.
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Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.
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One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.
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Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together.
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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.