You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.