I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

My lord," catherine asked,her eyes wide, "do you think that has anything to do with the Ramsay curse?" "Actually, that hadn't occurred to me yet," Leo said, "thank you so much for bringing it to my attention.

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.