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Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4) QUOTES

Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4) QUOTES

1 " Squabbling over too little is just human nature. But it says a great deal about a person, what they do with abundance. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

2 " It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

3 " I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant... There is only beauty. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

4 " It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

5 " Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

6 " Her,” he said. “I’ll take her. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

7 " This was now officially the most inane conversation in which Griff had ever been a participant—and that included a drunken debate with Del over ostrich racing.

“The color isn’t too awful?” She twisted a fold of the skirt. “The draper called it ‘dewy petal,’ but your mother said the shade was more of a ‘frosted berry.’ What do you say?”

“I’m a man, Simms. Unless we’re discussing nipples, I don’t see the value in these distinctions. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

8 " Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

9 " Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

10 " No, your grace. I'm going to be a disaster. I have to be. Elegance, comportment, accomplishment, elocution...all of it. I don't possess any of the qualities a duchess needs."

The older woman waved a hand. "Forget all that. There is exactly one quality, and one quality only, that makes a woman a duchess."

"What's that?"

"She marries a duke. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

11 " This?” the duchess asked.
“Yes. That.”
“I will tell you exactly what this is.” She lifted her chin, then turned to Pauline. “It’s exceedingly poor handiwork. Very bad indeed, Miss Simms. I expected better of you.” She cast the entire mess of yarn into the coal grate.
Pauline rolled her eyes at the Bible. “Hypocrite,” she pronounced softly, with perfect diction. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

12 " Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

13 " You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see yourself."

"I have seen myself. That's the snag, you see."

He shook his head. "No, no. Not in a mirror. I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant...There's only beauty. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

14 " I need a penny,” Pauline said. “Quickly, give me a penny.” He fished in his pocket and produced a coin, then dropped it in her outstretched hand. She peered at it. “This isn’t a penny. It’s a sovereign.” “I don’t have anything smaller.” She rolled her eyes. “Dukes and their problems. I’ll be along in a moment. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

15 " Griff had never been the fanciful sort, even as a boy. When he was with Pauline, the world was different. She forced him to see things through fresh eyes. Suddenly his library was the eighth wonder of the world, and Corinthian columns merited blasphemy. A ferry across the Thames was an epic journey, and a kiss . . . a kiss was everything. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

16 " He'd never thought he would feel that way again. Ready to brave any sorrow just to keep her at his side. Perhaps the impulse wasn't logical or reasoned, but it was real and true. It was choosing hope rather than despair. Seizing the one sparkling possibility in a roomful of someones. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

17 " You're right,' he told her. 'Kissing is the one thing that would undoubtedly make this moment worse.'
'Oh, Lord.' She leaned forward until her brow met his chest. Then she lifted her head slightly. Then let it fall forward again. After a few more repetitions, he understood the meaning behind this strange gesture.
His chest was the brick wall, and she was bashing her head against it. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

18 " My,” Miss Simms said, wide-eyed. “I do hope dukes aren’t held to the same standard. Can’t be healthy for a man, always stifling his ejaculations. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

19 " Oh. I see. So your grace never curses.” “I do not.” “Words like cor . . . bollocks . . . damn . . . devil . . . blast . . . bloody hell . . .” She pronounced the words with relish, warming to her task. “They don’t cross a duchess’s lips?” “No.” “Never?” “Never.” Miss Simms’s fair brow creased in thought. “What if a duchess steps on a tack? What if a gust of wind steals a duchess’s best powdered wig? Not even then?” “Not even when an impertinent farm girl provokes a duchess to a simmering rage,” she replied evenly. “A duchess might contemplate all manner of cutting remarks and frustrated oaths. But even in the face of extreme annoyance, she stifles any such ejaculations.” “My,” Miss Simms said, wide-eyed. “I do hope dukes aren’t held to the same standard. Can’t be healthy for a man, always stifling his ejaculations.” Griff promptly broke the prohibition against elbows on the table, smothering a burst of laughter with his palm and disguising it as a coughing "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)

20 " Is that what he was initiating, then? Playing roles? The libertine duke and the naughty serving girl? Well... After about two seconds' pause, Pauline decided she could get inspired for that. "

― Tessa Dare , Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)