Eloisa James Quotes
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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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I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.
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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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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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I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.
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Life does not always gives us the choices that we want.
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Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.
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Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
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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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Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.
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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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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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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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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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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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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
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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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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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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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He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.
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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.