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41 " I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself. "
― Eloisa James , When Beauty Tamed the Beast (Fairy Tales, #2)
42 " I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die. "
43 " He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package. "
― Eloisa James , A Kiss at Midnight (Fairy Tales, #1)
44 " A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar. "
45 " I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis. "
― Eloisa James , Paris in Love
46 " 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. "
47 " I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it.""He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in."Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me. "
48 " 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. "
― Eloisa James , Duchess By Night (Desperate Duchesses, #3)
49 " 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. "
― Eloisa James , The Ugly Duchess (Fairy Tales, #4)
50 " God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread. "
51 " Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing. "
― Eloisa James
52 " He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all. "
53 " Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish. "
54 " Life does not always gives us the choices that we want "
― Eloisa James , A Duke of Her Own (Desperate Duchesses, #6)
55 " Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has. "
― Eloisa James , This Duchess of Mine (Desperate Duchesses, #5)
56 " 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. "
57 " The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. "
58 " I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning. "
59 " I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me. "
60 " There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel. "