My actions dishonored us both.” -Will “It’s not in your…

“How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?”

— Cecilia Grant

“Some men there were who know how to look at a lady, and make her feel she'd been seen. Or perhaps there was no…

— Cecilia Grant

“Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung with her…

— Cecilia Grant

“Love makes us all do unaccountable things.”

— Cecilia Grant

“With all the insolence she swallowed, it was a wonder her corsets still laced. Retort after rejoinder after sharp-edged remark: Why do you address…

— Cecilia Grant

“He shook his head, the corner of his mouth ticking up. “My way this time, remember? No ordering me about. I place an embargo…

— Cecilia Grant

“Wicked, to be sure.” He repeated the word as though tasting it, his gaze now following her finger's progress. “Perhaps you'd better punish me.”…

— Cecilia Grant

“I love you for your quickness and your brokenness and your sharp edges too.”

— Cecilia Grant

“Don’t you find that a terribly romantic idea? Love stealing in to overtake two people who’d believe they were merely friends?”

— Cecilia Grant

“Even two people who are no more than friends by daylight can fell prey to the influence of a secret dark room.”

— Cecilia Grant

“I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings." He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length,…

— Cecilia Grant

“A smile flickered over his lips, but found no purchase”

— Cecilia Grant

“A lock of her hair escaped its pin and rode out on the wind, one more insubordinate part of her reaching for him.”

— Cecilia Grant

“Have you learned nothing from Kitty of how a married sister ought to behave? You must invite young ladies of your own choosing, and…

— Cecilia Grant

“A sodden leaf pinwheeled into the coachman’s face and stuck there. He let it remain, as though to make a show of his fitness…

— Cecilia Grant