I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.

Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm had changed ever so slightly. Annabelle moistened her dry lips. “You …you mustn’t stare at me like that.” Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. “With you here, nothing else is worth looking at.