I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

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.

If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.” “It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.