Historical-romance Quote by Christina Brooke

“A gentleman can’t let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed.” “But you are not a gentleman,”…

— Christina Brooke

“Good night, my lord.” The words were pronounced in her most withering tone. By contrast, he remained quite alarmingly unwithered long after she left.”

— Christina Brooke

“She narrowed her gaze. “I don’t trust you to keep your eyes closed.” “Smart woman,” he said. “I wouldn’t trust me, either, if I…

— Christina Brooke

“I only hope I may not be ruined,” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d…

— Christina Brooke

“Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn’t say with any confidence that her actions…

— Vanessa Kelly

“...we'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay.”

— Julianne Donaldson

“He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he’d read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill…

— Celeste Bradley

“Their encounter confirmed what he had been unwilling to admit. Charlotte didn’t taste, smell, or feel like any other woman he had ever known.…

— Ally Broadfield

“Actually, should you ever decide to subject me to this, I think..." "You think what?" "I think that I would probably buy you a…

— Madeline Hunter

“If I could,” he went on, “I would remain like this indefinitely—clasped by you, held inside you, a part of you—without moving at all.…

— Sylvia Day

“We must go to the laboratory at once. I have some cannabis.”

— Brooklyn Ann

“Aden St. George managed to avoid having to kill the guard stationed outside his quarry’s crypt-like cell, although the thug outside the caves hadn’t…

— Vanessa Kelly