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How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1) QUOTES

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1) QUOTES

1 " All I’m asking is for you to have mercy on me, wife. If there is a battle to fight, a villain to face, I beg you to allow me the honor. Because the cruelest thing you could do, is sentence me to a world without you in it. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

2 " They were perfect for each other. Two restless souls that would never be still. And would no longer have to wander alone. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

3 " I honor their journey through this world, and hope they have found peace in the next. That … I might also find peace.” She studied the napkin in her lap. “Sometimes, though, I fear the weight of my sins will pull me into the abyss. I hope if God exists, if we are to stand judgment, that justice is more compassion than vengeance. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

4 " Were we to marry, our life would be years and years of senseless battles, him trying to put me in my place, and me trying to murder him in his sleep. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

5 " One kiss. Nothing more?" "One kiss." His head tilted, and the moon shone on his wound. His tongue touched the ridge of the scar, as though he hoped it might have disappeared. "One taste. That's all I ask... "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

6 " do not live in fear of any particular God, and neither do I know which one to believe in,” she finally answered gravely. “I’ve studied so many of them, enough to know that it is more reasonable to live in fear of man than God. Of what man makes of this world. For we are capable of enough evil without a god or a devil to influence us one way or the other. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

7 " He never intended to have a clandestine lover.
He was not his mother. He was not like Rose.
Once he'd married, he'd never stray.
Alexandra Lane would be his one and only lover.
He was her beast now.
May God have mercy on her soul. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

8 " Piers moved closer to the tables, cataloguing the bones of the departed, imagining the matching ones in Forsythe's body equally broken and dismantled.
By his bare hands.
He'd never learned much about exhuming corpses, but he certainly knew how to make them. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

9 " Then he could go to work. Because as devastating and severe as the gun in Forsythe's hands was, Piers could be spectacularly more lethal. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)

10 " I cannot stand at your bedside and watch you struggle to breathe, wondering if you've enough blood left in your body to sustain you. Wishing I could tear my veins open and offer you mine. I cannot watch someone threaten your precious life. I cannot—will not—allow you out of my sight into a world where you might be taken from me. "

― Kerrigan Byrne , How to Love a Duke in Ten Days (Devil You Know, #1)