Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

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

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

My love has eyes blue as the sky. Her warm, bright smile makes me want to try To give her the world, And when she's curled Up in my arms where I can feel her touch, I realize again that I love her so much. My world has turned from black to white. Kissing in starlight, basking in sunlight, dancing at midnight.' ~John's poem for Belle

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be for life. You must go where your heart leads and never forget that love is the most precious gift of all. Money and social status are poor substitutes for a warm, tender embrace, and there is little in life more fulfilling than the joy of loving and knowledge that you are loved in return.

Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.