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Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1) QUOTES

Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1) QUOTES

1 " She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

2 " She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

3 " I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

4 " I'm no good at being good. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

5 " If this is how it's going to be -you getting all broody and distracted every time you fall in lust with somebody -well, I haven't the stomach for it. I won't put up with it, not for a dukedom. Not for three dukedoms. I deserve better than the role of a quietly accepting wife. I'm an interesting woman. I read. I have opinions. I appreciate poetry. I have a sense of humor."

"I know all that. I've always known."

"I deserve to be loved, truly loved -mind, body and soul. And in case you haven't noticed, there's a line of men ready to give me all that. Why on earth should I settle for a man who can't give me anything but friendship. Why should I settle for you? "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

6 " I have a plan," he said.
"Yes," she said.
"Let's get married," he said.
"Yes," she said.
"Let's conquer the world," he said.
"Yes," she said. No one in her family had ever been accused of dreaming small.
"Let's bring the beau monde to its knees."
"Yes."
"Let's make them beg for your creations."
"Yes," she said. "Yes, yes, yes."
"Is tomorrow too soon?" he said.
"No." she said. "We've a great deal to do, you and I, conquering the world. We must start at once. We've not a minute to lose."
"I love hearing you say that," he said.
He kissed her. It lasted a long time.
And they would last, she was sure, a lifetime. On that she'd wager anything. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

7 " I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it."
"Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

8 " She swallowed it. So bitter.
"Vile," she said. "Vile."
"I know, but it helps. Trust me. I know."
"Trust you," she said. "Hah."
"Clearly you are not dying."
"No. Devil won't take me."
The low chuckle again. "Then we're all safe. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

9 " Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

10 " Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.
Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.
Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

11 " No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm."
"You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

12 " She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart.
But now she couldn't speak, because it was too much, whatever it was. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

13 " Hell, what was one more scandal? "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

14 " A man ought to look up to a woman, literally or figuratively, because that is the proper mode of worship, and worship is the very least he can do. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

15 " Get off," she said. "Get off now."
Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in the traditional manner of our species. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

16 " Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered.
Then he recalled who it was who had a child.
A child, Noirot had a child! "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

17 " He'd forget all that, just as he would forget this night.
The memories would linger for a time, but they'd grow dull. The ache he felt now, the frustation and anger and sorrow - all those would fade too.
She'd given him a night to remember, but of course he'd forget. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

18 " I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well."
"Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

19 " ...it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)

20 " Clevedon told the dressmakers that the previous tenants (a husband and wife) had fallen into dire financial difficulties within months of opening the place. They’d absconded in the dead of night mere days ago, owing three months’ back rent. They must have borrowed or stolen a cart, because they’d taken away most of the shop’s contents and fixtures.

This was a complete lie.

The truth was, Varley had bribed them to move and sweetened the offer by allowing them to take with them everything that wasn’t nailed down. "

― Loretta Chase , Silk Is for Seduction (The Dressmakers, #1)