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61 " She had always loved him, after all. And perhaps he knew it. Perhaps he saw more than she had suspected. And despite it, he did not look away. "
― Meredith Duran , The Duke of Shadows
62 " It was no small talent to know how to immerse oneself in mundane pleasures. It had been a very long time since he’d experienced the feeling that he saw on her face. Curious to consider that he might have something to learn from her. Years, perhaps, since he’d found a novelty able to keep all his senses occupied. Perhaps she was such a novelty in herself. "
― Meredith Duran , A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
63 " Butterflies emerged in her stomach. She promptly willed them dead. "
― Meredith Duran , Fool Me Twice (Rules for the Reckless, #2)
64 " How could any woman's skin be so soft? It was as if the world had never touched her. "
― Meredith Duran , Bound by Your Touch
65 " Better to say—we’ll find you a man of discerning tastes, who knows brilliance when he sees it, and knows to treasure it, too.” She hesitated. “Gentlemen don’t want a lady who knows more than them.” “Your mother told you that?” When she nodded, he pulled a face. “Well, that isn’t quite true. Some men reckon it a very fine thing, to have a wife with a brain. "
― Meredith Duran , Luck Be a Lady (Rules for the Reckless, #4)
66 " Humbleness came hard to her. She could not value it; too many unkind people had tried to force it on her in her youth. They had expected her to be ashamed, and so she had vowed never to be so. "
67 " Perfection was not always beautiful: sometimes, it was terrifying. "
68 " It's very easy to resist men, isn't it? But managing to pick the right one -- that is truly worthy of praise. "
69 " Well. You must admit, you do need a haircut.” A faint smile ghosted over his mouth. His fingers loosened; they slipped over hers as they withdrew. “Is there anyone in this house whom I could trust to wield the scissors? I have given them all cause to aim for my throat.” Was that a joke? Miracle of miracles! “Come now,” she said hoarsely. “Be sensible. Dead men pay no salaries. "
70 " Was not love a terrible thing? One thought one had learned to manage it, and then it sprang free again, rattling its claws in one's liver. "
― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure
71 " If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards. "
72 " The hand of a woman may be soft, but her reach is long. And its subtlety does not make it any less effective! "
73 " He would invent a way. Like a scientist, he would devise a way to take her apart. He would own her by the end. No one else would get the chance. "
74 " He sneers so regularly that I suspect he shaves his mustache only to spare his nose the whisker burn. "
― Meredith Duran , That Scandalous Summer (Rules for the Reckless, #1)
75 " I will not endure a wife who tells me to go back to a mistress. I will not have a wife who refuses to demand explanations. "
― Meredith Duran , A Lady's Code of Misconduct (Rules for the Reckless, #5)
76 " It’s a strange kind of torture,” he said quietly. “To be caged by the lowest expectations. A humiliation of the soul. "
77 " I am as much a villain in my nature as a common thief on the high road,” he said. “Did you not know it?” His words framed a confession but he spoke it shamelessly. He did not sound sorry at all. “Here is what makes me a criminal, Nora. Righteous men conceive of an end and pray for righteous means to obtain it. But criminals do not look to prayer for their hopes. They place no faith in chance. When they see an end, they risk everything to obtain it—no matter whether it is theirs to risk or no "
78 " His fingers settled on her hair. The purest, softest shade of black. The shade one saw when one closed one's eyes, in a warm, comfortable place, to rest. "
79 " Her smile gutted him. He had forgotten the trick of that smile—how it could spark a light inside a man that made him feel untethered from the earth, or gut him more deeply than a blade "
― Meredith Duran , The Sins of Lord Lockwood (Rules for the Reckless, #6)
80 " I think you would have answered the question very cuttingly, if you felt comfortable with your reply.” Her audacity should not be able to surprise him any longer. But he still did not understand how she did this: how she shifted the balance of power between them so suddenly that he felt compelled to reply, to prove himself, to be accountable to her. "