Quote by Lauren Willig

“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one…

— Lauren Willig

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

— Lauren Willig

“That's a good point, I suppose,' he said in that way people have when you've just said something that's so off the mark it…

— Lauren Willig

“Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive,…

— Lauren Willig

“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't…

— Lauren Willig

Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake…

— Lauren Willig

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.”

— Lauren Willig

“I’m not your gilded prince with the gilded chairs, Letty,” Geoff said simply. “I couldn’t be if I tried.” “I wouldn’t want you to…

— Lauren Willig

“After an initial startled gasp, his intended bride dissolved into his arms, returning his kiss with more fervor than she had ever shown before.…

— Lauren Willig

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

— Lauren Willig

“Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying…

— Lauren Willig

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.…

— Lauren Willig