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1 " My darling love, I think you have a fundamental misconception about what it means to be a great dandy. I have better taste than anyone else so I don't care what anyone else thinks about anything. I am right and they are wrong. "
― Miranda Neville , The Amorous Education of Celia Seaton (The Burgundy Club, #3)
2 " On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind. "
― Miranda Neville , The Second Seduction of a Lady (The Wild Quartet, #0.5)
3 " He'd kept his figure despite being past his first youth. Pretty good for nearly forty.Who was she fooling? She knew quite well that he was thirty-five and a half, exactly five years older than she. Their birthdays were two days apart. It was absurd the way trivial facts lingered in the memory, facts as unimportant as what she had for dinner on Tuesday. Except that she couldn't remember last week's menu and she was annoyingly aware of Max Quinton's preference for lamb over beef, for apple tart over syllabub. He preferred Shakespeare to the modern poets, the country to the town. "
4 " You love Robert, not me. You don’t love Lord Stuffy, so I tried to be like Robert.”The sweet idiot! She felt like weeping again. She began to protest, but he cut her off.“I don’t drink and I don’t gamble and I don’t have a mistress. I’m dull. You told me so, the first time we met. So I tried to change.” He frowned. “Not the mistress. I’ll never do that.”“Good,” she whispered.“I’m trying to be like Robert, but I’m no good at it. I drank wine. And brandy, lots of it. I didn’t like it and it made me sick. I played hazard and I lost.” He looked momentarily cheerful and her heart sank. “But I didn’t like that either. If I was a real man like Mr. Fox, or Robert, I’d have lost thousands.”The sadder he looked, the more her heart ached, a happy ache.“I failed you, Caro. I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I’ll always be Lord Stuffy,” he said, and closed his tortured, bloodshot eyes. "
― Miranda Neville , The Importance of Being Wicked (The Wild Quartet, #1)
5 " There’s no joy in possession if all you do is throw money at it. "
― Miranda Neville , The Duke of Dark Desires (The Wild Quartet, #4)
6 " No man is a sinister brooding presence to his mother, "
7 " Did you have a good journey from Derbyshire?" he asked. "How was Cuthbert?""Cousin Cuthbert lives in Kent," she replied calmly. "I was in Somerset with the Brothertons. "
