December 2011
106 posts
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“I can’t promise you an ordinary experience, Kate. I wish I could transform...”
– Die For Me (Amy Plum)
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“We all survive. We all go home. We are brothers unto the end.”
– Brotherhood Creed (Brotherhood of the Sword)
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Born In Sin
Callie: What did they do to you, to make you withdraw so far into yourself? (Sin doesn’t answer.) You’ve left me again, haven’t you? I can always tell. Your eyes turn dull, cold. Very well, I shall leave you in peace. But know this: One day I am going to find the heart you have buried away from the world.
Sin: And what would you do with it if you found it?
Callie: I would hold it safe and keep it from the hurt that has shriveled it.
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Born In Sin
Callie: I was angry with you.
Sin: For what?
Callie: Sleeping on the floor again. What is it with you and the floor? Most women have to fear their husbands are in the bed of another. Me, ’tis the hearth I envy.
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“You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you.”
– Leona Montgomery (The Sins of Lord Easterbrook by Madeline Hunter)
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“You harm her, and so help me, I’ll defy death itself to rip your heart out.”
– Ewan MacAllister (Taming the Scotsman by Kinley MacGregor)
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A Dark Champion
Rowena: Do all men kiss like that?
Stryder: I know not since I have never kissed a man.
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“I spent the rest of my day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put...”
– Die For Me (Amy Plum)
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Born In Sin
Sin: Callie.
Callie: Aye.
Sin: Can you teach me what love is?
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Born In Sin
Callie: Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you?
Sin: Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they’re swallowed. Not worth the effort, really.
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“You touch her again, and so help me I’ll rip your arm off and beat you with it.”
– Ewan MacAllister (Taming the Scotsman by Kinley MacGregor)
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Taming the Scotsman
Ewan: I happen to like being sad over nothing at all. I find it suits me.
Nora: A smile would suit you better. My mother always says that a smile is dressing for the face.
Ewan: And I always say the face, much like the body, is best left naked.
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“Would you risk your life for love?”
– Amy Plum
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Master of Desire
Simon: Allow me to present myself, milady. I am Simon of Ravenswood, brother to the ogre, and your most fervent protector for this journey.
Draven: Wonderful. And pray tell who will protect her from your drooling? Should I have my squire fetch rags now, or should I wait until she starts to drown?
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Born In Sin
Sin: I love you, Callie ingen Neil, Lairdess of the MacNeelys and wife of a man who is so unworthy of you that he swears he will spend the rest of his life trying to show you just how much you mean to him.
Callie: There’s no need to try, Sin. All I have to do is look into your eyes and I know.
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Master of Seduction
Jack: But tell me truly, milovidnost, had I asked you to elope with me that night, would you not have followed me to the ends of the earth?
Lorelei: I wouldn't have followed you to the end of the corridor.
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Claiming the Highlander
Sin: Ever the charmer, eh, Braden?
Braden: Hold your tongue, Sin.
Sin: I would, but with my luck, one of your giant Scottish bugs would land on it. Besides, it makes my hand wet and pruney when I do that.
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Born In Sin
Lochlan: She is beautiful, isn’t she?
Sin: Like the first day of spring after a long, harsh winter.
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Born In Sin
Callie: Cyn? Short for Cynric?
Sin: Nay. S-I-N. As in conceived, born in, and am currently living happily in.
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Taming the Scotsman
Nora: Have you always been so large?
Ewan: Aye. I came from my mother’s womb at full height. The shock of it almost killed her.
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A Pirate of Her Own
Morgan: Who says I’m drinking?
Jake: I guess the bottle drank itself.
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“One day your prince will come. Mine took a wrong turn, got lost and is too...”
– Kinley MacGregor
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“I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not...”
– Sebastian (Ravishing in Red by Madeline Hunter)
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Taming the Scotsman
Ewan: Gathering wool, are we?
Nora: Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I’d say I’m doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well.
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Taming the Scotsman
Sean: I can almost believe the rumors that say you’ve sold your soul to the devil when you look like that.
Ewan: You can more than believe it, MacKaid. Harm her and I’ll introduce you to the devil myself.
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“Trust me, Stryder, there is no greater pain than to let the one you love leave...”
– Zenobia (A Dark Champion by Kinley MacGregor)
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“I love when you stand close to me. I can feel your breath fall against my neck...”
– Jack (Master of Seduction by Kinley MacGregor)
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Taming the Scotsman
Ewan: I’m not moping.
Nora: Oh, forgive me. See, where I come from an upside-down smile means you’re frowning, and if you’re frowning while withdrawn from everyone and everything, it means you’re moping. I guess here in your cave, the world is backward and a frown means you’re happy.
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“Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could...”
– Always a Scoundrel (Suzanne Enoch)
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Taming the Scotsman
Nora: Was that a smile?
Ewan: Was what a smile?
Nora: That strange curvature of your lips. You know, the one where the corners are actually going up instead of down.
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Born In Sin
Callie: I was thinking of setting myself on fire tonight. Would you mind?
Sin: What?
Callie: Ha! I knew it. I knew I could get you to talk. Just think, a whole word, too. Who knows if I keep this up, I might have you speaking an entire sentence by week’s end.
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“Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum...”
– Die For Me (Amy Plum)
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“There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the...”
– Jude Deveraux
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Born In Sin
Callie: Where’s the bull?
Sin: Tied to a tree, eating my boot. I’m just glad my leg is no longer in it.
Angus: Lad, how did you manage it?
Sin: I run fast when chased by large bulls.
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“My soul will find yours.”
– A Knight in Shining Armor (Jude Deveraux)
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“Do you intend to come over here and mount your horse, or are you wanting to...”
– Ewan MacAllister (Taming the Scotsman by Kinley MacGregor)
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A Dark Champion
Fair greetings.
I hope this letter finds you well. I have been counting every minute of every day we have been apart. And on every morning when I awake, the first thought I have is of you.
In all my life, I never thought that I would find anyone like you. Someone who makes me laugh even when I no longer have strength even to smile. All I have to do is think of you and my heart is instantly...
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Master of Desire
Emily: Do you know what a friend is, milord?
Draven: An enemy in disguise.
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Master of Desire
Simon: I never thought I’d see the day you retreated from anything, least of all a mere slip of a woman.
Draven: And never did I think I would find a woman I wanted so badly. Beauty, you’re a treacherous lure with a deadly hook, and this fish has no choice except to flee before it gets caught.
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Taming the Scotsman
Ewan: Don’t touch me, Nora.
Nora: Why?
Ewan: If you touch me, I’ll kiss you, and if I kiss you right now, I’m not sure I’ll have the strength to pull back and be satisfied with just the taste of your lips.
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“Books have a world all their own”
– Madeline Hunter
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“Doing the right thing often resulted in living the wrong thing forever.”
– Christian, Marquess of Easterbrook (The Sins of Lord Easterbrook by Madeline Hunter)
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“If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no...”
– Addis De Valence (By Possession by Madeline Hunter)
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“It’s an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart...”
– Wild Orchids (Jude Deveraux)
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“What’s in a man’s past doesn’t matter nearly as much as what’s in his present,...”
– Kristen (A Pirate of Her Own by Kinley MacGregor)
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“Love is a word we use for the desire to fornicate so that we seem more refined...”
– Lucian Balfour (Reforming a Rake by Suzanne Enoch)
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A Dark Champion
Rowena: You can’t save the world, Stryder.
Stryder: If I save one person, then I have saved their world. Homes are not built of one single slab, but rather they are made of hundreds of stones. If one stone is crushed, then the entire house is compromised, if not ruined. I might not save them all, but I have to save as many as I can.
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“You are beautiful and humble and sensitive and the keeper of my heart. I know it...”
– Gabriel Devine (At the Bride Hunt Ball by Olivia Parker)
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A Dark Champion
Rowena: The only way to peace is to lay aside weapons.
Zenobia: And the bloodiest of wars are often fought not with weapons, but rather with tongues. A man can heal an external wound a thousand times faster than he can heal even a small one dealt to his heart. You are a warrior, milady. You just choose a different forum for your battles, but you battle nonetheless. Like the men you hate so much, you hurt and wound. Have you given thought to why you fight the wars you do?
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“You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew...”
– Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception (Maggie Stiefvater)