Your heart is free now." "No," he whispered. "It's yours.

A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.