“I love you," she murmured. The words ... it was as though an entire sun had exploded in his chest. He'd been… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Very well,” she said after a moment. “Here is how I see that loyalty and love are the same: You would lay… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“I will die, however,” he said quite seriously, “if you leave me again. Just watch me.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Tell me—what wouldn’t you do for Violet, Captain Flint?” Flint didn’t yet know the answer to this. Though he was perhaps closer… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and “is kind” nonsense. It’s like the… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“But is not one a result of the other?” she asked. “Love and loyalty? I cannot see how could you prefer one… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in love?” “Colin. For the love of God.” “I have,” he said bluntly. “And when you lose love,… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“No one moved. No one spoke. They seemed be riveted by whatever it was they saw in his eyes. “Place me like… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“She needed to know more. “But that means…” “It means I love you, Violet. I have never said that aloud to another… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“What was love if not a certain pleasantly deluded familiarity built up over years?” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“When and if Violet ever fell in love, lightning would split the heavens, tectonic plates would shift, continents would reorder themselves. Because… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“So she was to be savagely heartbroken and then poisoned by one of their cook’s noxious herbal brews in the space of a few… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“A nondescript place, but it had inevitably changed over the years; one of the old oaks had been split by lightning and now lay… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“It’s…” She couldn’t finish. “Don’t try, Miss Redmond,” he agreed, shading his eyes. “There are honestly no suitable words, so we shall not fault… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't ask questions when you know at heart you'd prefer not to hear the answers.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“She settled upon the hound. She met its brown eyes. It blinked slowly in what she liked to think was sympathy. Neither of them… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“He had one of those chins what…” One of the innkeeper’s hands went up to squeeze his chin into two little folds. “…a chin… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“What happens next?" she whispered. Connor turned to her and smiled faintly. Always a question, that was Rebecca. There's more?" he said in mock… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“I couldn't see it because you are my heart, damn you! And how can I see my own heart if it's beating in my… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“I love you," she murmured. The words ... it was as though an entire sun had exploded in his chest. He'd been ridiculous. His… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“imagine the ton would leap from London Bridge if the marquess did it first. Mind you, he’d land on a cart carrying a feather… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image