The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.

Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only.

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.