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Meredith Duran QUOTES

Meredith Duran QUOTES

1 " Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it. "

― Meredith Duran , Written on Your Skin

2 " Or perhaps, despite your brave words to my parents, you've forgotten what love and loyalty look like. They aren't sacraments, Jane, for only God is perfect, only Go deserves our love without judgement. Men--women--we make mistakes. We judge those we love. But we keep loving them anyway, because we know that mistakes can be repaired, and that tomorrow, our love will be deserved again. It only takes faith--or loyalty, as you called it. Those ARE what tie a family together, through tick and thin. And they tie a husband and wife together, too. There is no happy ending, you're right--not in the singular. but in a marriage, there might be countless happy endings and even more sweet beginnings, if loyalty and love are what guide you. "

― Meredith Duran , A Lady's Code of Misconduct (Rules for the Reckless, #5)

3 " I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

4 " For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first! "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

5 " What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

6 " He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

7 " You are...beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

8 " I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

9 " I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

10 " Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.'

Lady Nora: 'I am sorry to hear that, I suppose it takes some wit to produce one's own entertainment. Are you often bored? "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

11 " She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others' responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort of service was owed to those whom he loved. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

12 " I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

13 " Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

14 " She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut their fingers and mingle their blood and know this meant something. She longed for some transformation more lasting than that wrought by the law and his name, some visceral change he might effect in her so that anyone on the street with one glance would know she was his. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

15 " If Gerry were dying of thirst and spotted Alex two feet from a well, he still would not think he required his younger brother's help. It simply would never occur to him that Alex might be able to provide it. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

16 " There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

17 " Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical. "

― Meredith Duran , Wicked Becomes You

18 " Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were. "

― Meredith Duran , The Duke of Shadows

19 " Yours if you want it."

- Julian to Emma. "

― Meredith Duran , The Duke of Shadows

20 " When he entered after her, she saw that he meant to come straight to her, and she raised a hand. "No," she said. "Wait."

His footsteps halted. He had always listened to her, hadn't he? Had always heard her."

-Emma and Julian "

― Meredith Duran , The Duke of Shadows