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At Your Pleasure QUOTES

At Your Pleasure QUOTES

1 " I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

2 " For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first! "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

3 " I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

4 " Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.'

Lady Nora: 'I am sorry to hear that, I suppose it takes some wit to produce one's own entertainment. Are you often bored? "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

5 " Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

6 " Spoken often enough, words become [became] nonsense. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

7 " For what is love but a great rebellion against caution and sense? "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

8 " This current between them had once seemed born of a perfect match between souls. That it had survived so many years’ separation might indicate that it was inborn: the product of the stars’ configuration at their respective births "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

9 " Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners... "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

10 " Was not love a terrible thing? One thought one had learned to manage it, and then it sprang free again, rattling its claws in one's liver. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

11 " I am as much a villain in my nature as a common thief on the high road,” he said. “Did you not know it?” His words framed a confession but he spoke it shamelessly. He did not sound sorry at all. “Here is what makes me a criminal, Nora. Righteous men conceive of an end and pray for righteous means to obtain it. But criminals do not look to prayer for their hopes. They place no faith in chance. When they see an end, they risk everything to obtain it—no matter whether it is theirs to risk or no "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

12 " He was a man of few personal possessions, and until this moment, he had never considered what they might say of him. But to see her close examination of them . . . suddenly he realized that each held a story that he might wish to share with her; and that in sharing these stories with her, these objects would finally realize their value "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

13 " The desire that moved him to it was not simply concerned with satisfaction. This hunger in him wanted to break her open so completely that she would never recover her reserve; that she would forget, for eternity, that once her body had been aught else but his. It was not an innocent craving. It was too near to violence for him to trust "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

14 " Some women would never know a touch like this. They would never know what they deserved. But she knew "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

15 " the kiss he gave her when he pulled her head down was slow and deep, a leisurely address that reached into her like the whisper of music "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

16 " Men made games of religion, did they not? They made God into a reason for warfare. Who was to say that He was anything more than an excuse, an invention, a convenient cause? Adrian had never felt Him save in His absence. Nothingness, then: no punishment for sin but death; no reward for virtue but the grave. Yet, even if there was a master in heaven, it would make no difference to his course. He would accept damnation as his due in exchange for an earthly life in which he and his were no one’s slaves "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

17 " ... only dogs and cowards licked the boot that kicked them. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

18 " Perhaps he was never himself but with her. Or rather, with her, he was more than himself "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

19 " Your loyalty is not to me. Well do I know it, Nora ... You alone,' he whispered, 'among every creature in my knowledge, will never let go of what is yours, no matter how it pains you. And so I know I cannot ask for your glad cooperation ... I cannot demand your submission. I can only hold you, and pray I keep you safe, and spare you, by force if need be, from the consequences of what I admire in you most.'
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To yield to his view of her was to accept that he tried to rule her from charitable and loving impulses. But she could not grant such motives to him without also accepting his rule. "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure

20 " My God, Leonora.” “I do not think He concerns Himself overmuch with such matters. He saves His attentions for judging us in the hereafter. In this world, we must fend for ourselves "

― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure