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Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2) QUOTES

Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2) QUOTES

1 " At some point, while you were roaming the globe, making treaties and dividing the spoils of war, I quietly declared my own independence. I am the sovereign nation of Clio now. And there will be no terms of surrender. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

2 " This was her body. She had learned to take pleasure in it, even if no man had ever done the same. It was curved and generous and womanly and strong, and it was formed to do more than decorate a drawing room, or transfer wealth from one gentleman to another.
She was made to tempt, labor, inspire, create, sustain.
Despite the way Rafe held her bound in his grasp, a sense of power moved through her. For once, she could revel in her femininity and feel it as something other than a disadvantage to be overcome. A quality to be respected, worshiped. Even feared. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

3 " I love you. I wish I had better ways to show it. All I have is this brash, reckless heart. But it's yours. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

4 " If Rafe had drawn up a list of tasks at Phoebe’s age, he could only imagine it would have looked thusly: 1. Skip lessons. 2. Chase girls. 3. Any excuse for a fistfight. 4. Is that a squirrel? End of list. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

5 " I'm not going to touch her," he said "She's not mine.She never will be."
"Indeed." Bruiser rolled his eyes and dusted off his hat. "Definitely no years of pent-up lusting there. Glad we have that sorted. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

6 " Just because they're family doesn't mean they won't hurt you. It means they know how to cut deep. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

7 " All this talk of folds and rods and buttons. Are we copulating or sewing draperies? "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

8 " People toss around the words ‘loyal’ and ‘kindhearted’ as though they’re common qualities. But they aren’t. They’re so rare. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

9 " It’s only wasted time if you don’t learn from it. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

10 " Even so, Miss Whitmore . . . We should have a signal.” “A signal?” “A word to shout if you’re in distress. Like ‘Tangiers,’ or . . . or perhaps ‘muscadine.’ ” Clio gave her an amused look. “Is something wrong with the word ‘help’?” “I . . . well, I suppose not. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

11 " It’s so curious, isn’t it? How if you’re denied something again and again, eventually you start telling yourself you didn’t want it in the first place. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

12 " Then he took that mental image and filed it away under Pleasant-Sounding Impossibilities. Right between “flying carriage” and “beer fountain. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

13 " There was rock-hard, there was hard-as-steel, and then there was the solidity of Rafe’s current erection—which so thoroughly surpassed all his previous experience, he suspected it might be of interest to science. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

14 " Sometimes the devil you knew was easier to face than the devil who'd pressed you to a bedpost and rolled your nipple under his thumb. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

15 " You don’t want to ruin the surprise.” “If the surprise is a spike through the chest, I do. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

16 " Ah." He paused. "I see where this is going. You want to know my secret pain."
"Secret pain?"
"Oh, yes. My inner demons. The dark current of torment washing away little grains of my soul. That's what you're after. You think that if you keep me here in your pretty castle and cosset me with sixteen pillows, I'll learn to love myself and cease submitting my body to such horrific abuse."
Clio bit her lip, grateful it was too dark for him to see her blush. If she'd been flamingo pink the other day, she must be fuchsia now. "I don't know where you get these ideas."
He chuckled. "From every woman I've ever met. You're not the first to try it, and you won't be the last. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

17 " You heard her the other night,” Bruiser said. “She wants love. And devotion and compromise. Funny, isn’t it, how women seem to want those things, when they’re saying words like ‘Till death do us part. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

18 " And before we begin, I should like one thing noted. I knew you had Secret Pain. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

19 " To her, I’m a coarse, barely literate brute with few redeeming qualities. As for her . . . She’s so innocent and tightly laced, she probably bathes in her shift and dresses in the dark. What would I do with a woman like that?” Everything. He’d do everything with a woman like that. Twice. “I’m not going to touch her,” he said. “She’s not mine. She never will be.” “Indeed.” Bruiser rolled his eyes and dusted off his hat. “Definitely no years of pent-up lusting there. Glad we have that sorted. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)

20 " Go on, then. Give it a pull.” Uncertainty drew his brows together. “What happens when I pull it?” “You don’t want to ruin the surprise.” “If the surprise is a spike through the chest, I do. "

― Tessa Dare , Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)