It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are.

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.