Adele Clee > Quotes

“And all the best dreams are magical.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“Just remember, very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
― Adele Clee, The Daring Miss Darcy

“Her nose was stuck so high in the air she was in danger of catching her nostril on the chandelier.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“Are you mocking me, sir?”

“Mocking you? Madam, you have me on the edge of my seat, hanging on your every word. Indeed, I am beginning to wonder why you need me.”
― Adele Clee, Valiant

“Lucas curled his fist into a ball at his side. He wanted to charge onto the floor and strangle the man with his cravat.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“But one could not keep stuffing sad memories into a valise, keep lugging it from pillar to post. Eventually, the bag became so heavy the seams split, and everything tumbled out.”
― Adele Clee, The Devereaux Affair

“A man should not have to search for a reason to marry, Miss Bennett. When he finds the perfect life partner, does he not feel it in his soul?”
― Adele Clee, One Winter's Night

“We tend to cling to what we’ve lost and not appreciate all we’ve gained.”
― Adele Clee, The Devereaux Affair

“There were some things a man would never forget: the smell and softness of a woman's skin, the moment he realised a chaste kiss had the power to heal his soul. The moment he let love slip through his fingers leaving him with nothing but the bitter taste of regret.”
― Adele Clee, Slave to the Night

“When a person spoke of deep sadness, the normal instinct was to convince them they were wrong, wrong to feel pain and sorrow, wrong not to focus on the good things in their life. Sometimes, a person just wanted to be heard. He knew that.”
― Adele Clee, Mine at Midnight

“When you enter the lair of a dragon you must expect to get a little burnt.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“The innocent love of a child had quickly become the lustful urges of a man.”
― Adele Clee, The Devereaux Affair

“What? You can fall in love so quickly?” He pinned her with his heated gaze. “I’ve loved you all my life.”
― Adele Clee, The Devereaux Affair

“And yet what counts is not the material things we leave behind. What counts is who we loved and who loved us in return.”
― Adele Clee, Valiant

“life is like the weather—unpredictable. When it is dark and miserable, we must have hope. But when it is warm and sunny, we must rejoice. We must embrace it and trust that its memory will sustain us when the rain comes again.”
― Adele Clee, What You Desire

“Honesty is extremely important to me. Without honesty, there can be no trust. Everyone makes mistakes, Mr. Dempsey, and more often than not they are easily rectified. However, once the bonds of trust are broken they are beyond repair.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“Julianna looked confused, for she couldn’t know that every woman Bennet had bedded bore a likeness to her. He’d been looking for Julianna de Lacy for seventeen years, but in all the wrong places.”
― Adele Clee, The Devereaux Affair

“But her traitorous body ached for him,”
― Adele Clee, What You Desire

“Promise you’ll find me when you’re old enough. Promise you’ll return if you can.”
― Adele Clee, The Devereaux Affair

“She hated the way her body betrayed her so easily, succumbing to his touch.”
― Adele Clee, What You Desire

“Trust yourself. Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Don’t let your happiness be dependent on what others say or do.”
― Adele Clee, A Gentleman's Curse

“Love is misery hidden in a bottle and passed as medicine.”
― Adele Clee, The Devereaux Affair

“I believe we should appreciate people for who they are, not try to forge them into someone of our own making.”
― Adele Clee, Valiant

“Lucas Dempsey looked every bit the master of his own world; a world where rules were for the weak and integrity for fools.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“No one had ever spoken up for him before. No one had ever believed him worthy.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“Ironically, she had everything he’d imagined wanting in a wife—strength, courage, a voracious appetite for adventure, a total disregard for propriety. One thing was certain. Miss Hart posed a greater threat to his sanity than the masked fiend.”
― Adele Clee, Valiant

“I cannot abide by your request. I’m not remotely attracted to any of them.” That wasn’t entirely true. He longed to kiss Miss Bennett.
His mother patted him on the arm. “Let’s see what tomorrow brings. Christmas is a time to assess what’s important, to prepare for new beginnings.”
“It’s a time to give thanks, Mother, not hurl oneself into the fiery pits of hell.”
― Adele Clee, One Winter's Night

“Could a man fall in love within minutes of meeting a woman? Could he surrender his heart when he hardly knew her? It didn’t make sense to him, and yet a woman he had known for days had suddenly become his world.”
― Adele Clee, At Last the Rogue Returns

“He wrapped his arms around her, pulled her close like she was the most fragile, most precious thing in the world.”
― Adele Clee, To Save a Sinner

“His throat grew tight when he thought of how close he’d come to losing her. Rose was his friend, his love, his everything. He recalled something she’d said at Everleigh. Often our greatest teachers are the ones who cause us the most pain. Now he understood Cassandra’s lesson. She had shown him all that love was not. Only now could he appreciate the value of sacrifice. Now he could appreciate the beauty of true love.”
― Adele Clee, The Deceptive Lady Darby