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At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1) QUOTES

At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1) QUOTES

1 " It took nearly a year to finish the ever-changing [marriage candidates] list, with the assistance of his sister and his aging spinster aunt, who lorded over their affairs as the self-appointed voice of cultivated reason. During this time, Gabriel struggled to convince straight-from-Oxford Tristan that he must marry, produce heirs, and maintain the family dukedom for Gabriel himself wouldn't marry. He knew he simply did not have the compulsion to inflict that sort of aggravation on a woman. "

― Olivia Parker , At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1)

2 " The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It seems you’ve a treasure map hidden on your person, and I mean to explore every inch of you until it is discovered. "

― Olivia Parker , At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1)

3 " Madelyn knew her aunt, drunk or sober, simply did not have the continuity of thought to see beyond her opinions to the implied insult. "

― Olivia Parker , At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1)

4 " You are beautiful and humble and sensitive and the keeper of my heart.
I know it will take some time, growing up with a beast of a guardian as you did, but there will come a day when you no longer criticize yourself, no longer believe less of yourself, and you will come to love yourself just as much as I love you.
Well, almost as much, I imagine.


-Gabriel Devine, Duke of Wolverest- "

― Olivia Parker , At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1)

5 " I never smiled much." His voice was a low purr in the shadows.
"Don't be silly," she replied, taking a step closer to the next portrait--and farther away from him. "You smile all the time."
"At you," he conceded, "with you, because of you. "

― Olivia Parker , At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1)

6 " Indeed, Gabriel knew it wasn't all just empty green fields of moorland grass for miles around. Tucked within the wide landscapes of these uplands was an unpredictability that a less observant person might never be aware of. There were waterfalls concealed in swaths of wilderness, rocky stream beds ramblings in deep valleys, and...knotted sheets? "

― Olivia Parker , At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1)