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1 " I don't care much for diamonds,' Nicola had told him.'Have you ever been offered any?' he had asked, and he had been making fun of her, his face mocking.'Not that I can remember,' Nicola had admitted calmly.'And how would an offer be received?' he had asked, as though he knew the answer.'With a kick in the teeth,' Nicola had said, meeting his eye. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Obsession
2 " Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Night Music
3 " Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Abduction
4 " When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers. "
5 " I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born? "
― Charlotte Lamb , Out of Control
6 " You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn,' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her. "
7 " Heroine: "You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves?"Hero: "I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you so long as I do. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Fever
8 " Sara: "You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves?"Nick: "I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you, so long as I do. "
9 " Children are imprinted with the lessons of life from their earliest years. They learn from their parents how to give and receive love. It is the necessary lesson which they must learn if they are to do more than exist in an emotional vacuum inhabited only by themselves. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Crescendo
10 " My God, I hate you! ’ she flung at him.‘Do you really?’ Andreas sneered, and his face was savage. ‘Well, I’ve got news for you, my darling. What you feel for me is lukewarm compared to what I feel for you. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Storm Centre
11 " Sara: You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves?Nick: I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you, so long as I do. "
― Charlotte Lamb
12 " Why did you leave me?How could you do that to me?That note you left didn`t explain,didn`t tell me anything,just said you were going and not coming back and not to look for you.Not look for you!How could you think i wouldn`t?Did you really believe I´d let you go like that?You must have known i would go crazy,wondering where you were,what was happening to you...you must have known what you had done to me,vanishing like that."-Domenico Alessandros "
― Charlotte Lamb , Dark Fate
13 " How do you manage to make me feel like this?' he asked her in a low, thickenedvoice. 'You give me nothing, absolutely nothing, yet I can't stop wantingyou.' His hand reached out, almost pleadingly, to touch her arm. 'Selina ...'-Ashley Dent "
― Charlotte Lamb , The Long Surrender
14 " Saskia...my god,Saskia..i`ve dreamed of making love to you so often over the past two years,I´m afraid you will vanish the way you do in my dreams.I´m afraid i`m going to wake up and find you gone again"-Domenico Alessandros "
15 " she was clinging ivy, she needed people to hold her up. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Twist of Fate
16 " أحببتك وأنت صغيرة سمينة مزعجة، ترمينني بحلوى عيد ميلادك في ثورة غضب.. أحببتك وأنت منمشة الوجه، كالقرد، في سن الثامنة.. تغشين في لعبة السلم والأفعى.. أحببتك أكثر من أي شيء حين عدت من لندن، جميلة، بحيث لم أستطع إبعاد عيني عنك "
17 " I would apologize to the devil if you treated him as you treat Nicola. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Florentine Spring
18 " His voice dropped the words like icy pebbles into the stream of her mind... "
19 " She had never felt like this in her life before. The closest she had ever come to such sensations had been when she had flu once—she remembered being light-headed, dizzy, shivery, hot and cold all at the same time, and that was how she felt now.Well, I haven't got flu, she thought grimly. It must be love. She closed her eyes, groaning silently. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Besieged (Barbary Wharf #1)
20 " It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them. "
― Charlotte Lamb , Spellbinding
