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Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2) QUOTES

Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2) QUOTES

101 " This takes a bit of getting used to,” he said. “All this smiling and good spirits. You’ve never been one of those lighthearted fellows.”
“I’m not lighthearted, I’m . . . wholehearted.”
Severin smiled reflectively as they stood to shake hands. “It must be nice,” he mused, “to be any kind of hearted. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

102 " Let us don our armor of control."-Lady Berwick "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

103 " being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing. Think "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

104 " Damn you for saying I could survive without you. I’ll have to punish you for that, cariad. For hours . . .” His mouth crushed over hers, dizzying and blatantly sexual, making promises that sent her blood racing. After "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

105 " Too much thinking will excite the sparks of vice. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

106 " Theirs had been a complex relationship, two people who had been bound by disappointments and resentments the way others were bound by love. Helen "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

107 " A wedding ritual in my part of Wales. A man and woman exchange vows with a stone held between their joined hands. After the ceremony, they go together to cast the stone into a lake, and the earth itself becomes part of their oath. From then on, they are bound to each other for as long as the world exists. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

108 " West," she said fondly, "whatever are you going to do when all of us leave you in peace?"
Sighing, West kissed her forehead. "I'll miss you, damn it. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

109 " Do you happen to have a pocket mirror?
"I'm afraid not. Why?"
"I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

110 " I would rather be thrown in a fiery pit of hell than return to Wales,"
Unable to tolerate him for another second, Helen stood and said coolly, "I'm sure that can be arranged, Mr. Vance. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

111 " There's no such thing as a tax on happiness," Helen said, rubbing her forehead.
The countess regarded her with rueful sympathy. "My poor girl... it certainly can't be had for free. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

112 " What am I going to say to the lady's maid when she sees this?"
He considered that for a moment. "Alas?" he suggested. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

113 " When you grow up without something, the lack of it is always with you. Even when you finally have it.” Helen "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

114 " I love you. I don’t give a damn if your father is the devil himself. I’d let you stab a knife in my heart if it pleased you, and I’d lie there loving you until my last breath.”-Rhys Winterborne's to Helen Ravenel "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

115 " Bychan: little one Cariad: sweetheart, beloved one Annwyl: "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

116 " Whispers can’t hurt you,” Pandora said. Cassandra gave her twin a chiding glance. “Whispers can gut and fillet you like a haddock. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

117 " You’re all mine.” His voice was deep and shaken. “Every hair on your head. Every part of you was made to be loved by me. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

118 " There is no happiness for any individual, man or woman, who does not dwell within the broad zone of average.” Pandora "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

119 " Losing his temper was a luxury he rarely permitted himself, but for the past week he'd been invaded by a sullen gloom that weighted every thought and heartbeat, and made him want to lash out at anyone within reach.
All because of a woman he had known better than to want.
Lady Helen Ravenel... a woman who was cultured, innocent, shy, aristocratic. Everything he was not. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)

120 " They both gasped as the head of his shaft pushed against the smoldering wet heat of her. Hunting for the right angle,, he bent his knees and drove up to the hilt in a sure, strong thrust. Helen let out a cry, and he hesitated, terrified that he had hurt her. But he felt her body working on his with deep quivers that drew a ragged sound of lust from him. Letting her weight settle more fully onto his shaft, he reached down with his thumb and forefinger to spread her sex open. She whimpered as he pressed against her and rocked upward, lifting her slightly with each thrust.
All he could hear were the rasps of their breathing, and the ceaseless rustling of clothes, and the occasional intimate wet sound as he lunged steadily into her. Deep inside she closed in on him sweetly, demanding more, and he gripped her hips and made her ride him relentlessly, using his body to pleasure her. They struggled together amid the rising sensation, pulling closer, closer, until there was no more friction, only the clamping, writhing, throbbing connection that held them fast to each other. Helen moaned, her arms tightening around his neck, and then she fell silent and began to shudder helplessly. The feel of her ecstasy delivered him, the release so complete that it was like losing consciousness, like dying and being reborn. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)