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A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2) QUOTES

A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2) QUOTES

1 " You should do that more often,” he said. “Laugh, I mean.”
“I know.” But that sounded sad, and she didn’t want to be sad, so she added, “I don’t often get to torture grown men, though.”
“Really?” he murmured. “I would think you do it all the time.”
She looked at him.
“When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

2 " I won’t be satisfied with anything less than everything, "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

3 " I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

4 " When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

5 " Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

6 " She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

7 " I love you," he said, and it felt as if the whole world settled into place when he finally told her. "I love you, and I cannot bear the thought of a moment without you. I want you at my side and in my bed. I want you to bear my children, and I want every bloody person in the world to know that you are mine. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

8 " She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself around, bury himself within her, and stay there for all of his days. He hadn’t had a drop to drink in three years, but he was intoxicated now, bubbling with a lightness he’d never thought to feel again. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

9 " I want you. I want you now, in every way a man can want a woman. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

10 " He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over each other like an endlessly edited story. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

11 " I should love to see a ground-glass blue ocean "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

12 " Anne strove for honesty whenever possible, probably because it so often wasn't possible. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

13 " when he called her Anne, it was the first time she felt as if the name was truly hers. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

14 " you may tell your husband that if he so much as touches a hair on my fiancés head, I shall personally see to it that his liver is extracted through his mouth. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

15 " You are so beautiful,' he whispered. She must have heard those words before, thousands of times, but he wanted her to hear them from *him*. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

16 " Everything was better with bacon. Life was better with bacon. “Elizabeth "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

17 " But as they settled into their seats in the inn’s busy dining room, he looked at her across the table and it wasn’t her beauty he saw. It was her heart. And her soul. And he had a sinking feeling that his life was never going to be the same. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

18 " She closed her eyes, and Daniel could practically see the memory washing over her face. 'It was such a lovely night,' she whispered. 'Midsummer, and so very clear. You could have counted the stars forever. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

19 " A few minutes later they were ensconced in his landau, the canopy pulled up tight. "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)

20 " This kiss . . . I wish for it with a fervor that shakes my soul. I have no idea why I wish it, only that I felt it the moment I saw you at the piano, and it has only intensified in the days since.” She "

― Julia Quinn , A Night Like This (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #2)