“How could any woman's skin be so soft? It was as if the world had never touched her.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Every person was his own country, she thought, governed by a private language, a personal reason and custom” — Meredith Duran Patriotism Copy Share Image
“the kiss he gave her when he pulled her head down was slow and deep, a leisurely address that reached into her… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Manners, you see, come down to a single principle: talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.” — Meredith Duran Humour Copy Share Image
“He smiled. "How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear… — Meredith Duran Confirm Copy Share Image
“He sneers so regularly that I suspect he shaves his mustache only to spare his nose the whisker burn.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Your wit is an education for me, Miss Boyce. I’d not realized that cleverness could coincide with such feminine graces.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he was never himself but with her. Or rather, with her, he was more than himself” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he… — Meredith Duran Marriage Copy Share Image
“You said we must coexist peaceably,' he continued. 'I agree. Instruct me how.' 'That was a lie,' she said, her voice choked.… — Meredith Duran Truth Copy Share Image
“She urged him on; he remained with her, focused, his lips now on her shoulder, now on her jaw; a courtship above,… — Meredith Duran Romance Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth is stumbling about the Stromonds' ballroom with all the grace of a baby elephant. Granted, she doesn't weigh much, but it… — Meredith Duran Animal Copy Share Image
“Canada is lovely," she breathed against his lips. "And you are lovely." His laughter ghosted into her mouth. "That's my line, Lyd.… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“This current between them had once seemed born of a perfect match between souls. That it had survived so many years’ separation… — Meredith Duran Astronomy Copy Share Image
“She was a sharp-toothed tiger wrapped up in silk. “I think I’ll make you pay for that taunt.” “Will you, now! And… — Meredith Duran Taunt Copy Share Image
“You're the lucky one. Otherwise you'd know there's a pleasure to be had from boredom. The best kind of pleasure: it means… — Meredith Duran Lucky Copy Share Image
“Kinship is the work of coincidence, sweetheart. The only thing it truly engenders is proximity. And sometimes not even that, as plenty… — Meredith Duran Kinship Copy Share Image
“Anyway,” she went on, “you must think the whole thing laughable. I am cared for, am I not? Provided with every luxury… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“and I said, 'That is why you don't climb mountains, Gwen.' But now I wonder. You aren't afraid of heights." "No", she… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“A body, he thought, was like a complex and complicated clock. Each one unique in its parts. Through study, one might discover… — Meredith Duran Trial and error Copy Share Image
“I am as much a villain in my nature as a common thief on the high road,” he said. “Did you not… — Meredith Duran Crime Copy Share Image
“She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut their fingers and mingle… — Meredith Duran Children Copy Share Image
“He could not admire her destructive loyalty to her brother. But it was born of the steel at her core. As a… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Men made games of religion, did they not? They made God into a reason for warfare. Who was to say that He… — Meredith Duran Religion Copy Share Image
“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.” — Meredith Duran Art Copy Share Image
“You came for me,” she whispered. His hand wound through her hair, cradling her. “I will always come for you,” he said.” — Meredith Duran Love Copy Share Image
“I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“So you hate me now,' she said quietly. 'How convenient for you. As though everything I did for you no longer counts,… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.” — Meredith Duran Feminism Copy Share Image
“In love my temperament found a new taste for life: it found a cure for the pain, and a pain without cure.'"… — Meredith Duran Life Copy Share Image
“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.” — Meredith Duran Death Copy Share Image
“A monopoly on knowledge is tantamount to a monopoly on everything else of value” — Meredith Duran Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Some women would never know a touch like this. They would never know what they deserved. But she knew” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“On a breath, he leaned forward. It was such a small space to close. Such an infinite distance to cross.” — Meredith Duran Breath Copy Share Image
“The hand of a woman may be soft, but her reach is long. And its subtlety does not make it any less… — Meredith Duran Drama Copy Share Image
“She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even… — Meredith Duran Freedom Copy Share Image
“He had worlds in his eyes; they were magnetic. He was a force of gravity, and his presence, even in this blackest… — Meredith Duran Magnetic force Copy Share Image
“You really must let me seduce you, Miss Boyce.” He spoke against her lips, in a voice that had gone hoarse. “We… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“My God, Leonora.” “I do not think He concerns Himself overmuch with such matters. He saves His attentions for judging us in… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“His hand still rested on her breast, but his fingers had stilled. The touch that had been so agitating now felt comforting.… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
