Sarah M. Eden > Quotes

“You are a cad,' he told himself. 'A cur. A bounder. A scoundrel. A ... human thesaurus.”
― Sarah M. Eden, The Kiss of a Stranger

“Time had come to formulate a reason to abandon the gardens and leave Miss Bower to leech onto some other gentleman, preferably one who had a certain fondness for parasites.”
― Sarah M. Eden, The Kiss of a Stranger

“What if she thinks I’m an idiot? Corbin had asked one of his brothers that question not a month earlier. You’re a Jonquil, Layton had answered. Of course she’ll think you’re an idiot.”
― Sarah M. Eden, As You Are

“I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Courting Miss Lancaster

“He actually winked at Persephone as if to say, “I told you.” “You had better be suffering from an uncontrollable muscle tic,” Adam grumbled, still seemingly concentrating on the food on his plate. “Completely uncontrollable.” Harry’s smile belied his words. “Good. Otherwise I would think you were just winking at my wife.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“I have found that sometimes a person is the last to know when she is in love. One's heart does not always share it's secrets with one's mind.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Courting Miss Lancaster

“Hope is not a prison.” Sorrel gently squeezed her arm. “Hope should lessen your fears, not intensify them”
― Sarah M. Eden, For Love or Honor

“Adam pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Why did Hades go after her?” he asked in a low voice, his lips still brushing her face. She barely managed to keep breathing. “He must have loved her,” she whispered. Adam’s response emerged breathless. “He must have.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“Adam?” “Yes, dear?” Dear? Adam sat stunned for a moment that such a word had come so naturally to his lips. “Please stay with me,” Persephone whispered. He didn’t know what brought on the impulse, but he leaned over and kissed her lightly on the forehead, lingering a moment longer than necessary. “If you will stay with me,” he answered silently.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“He tried to kill my wife,” Adam threw back. “If the wolves don’t tear him to pieces, I will.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“Adam grasped him by the throat once more and, his face an inch from Smith’s, growled out, “I am the Duke of Kielder. I am the law.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“His brother Layton was apparently right: Jonquils were idiots.”
― Sarah M. Eden, As You Are

“On your feet, maggot!”
― Sarah M. Eden, Courting Miss Lancaster

“I used to think good men did not exist. But then I met you, Corbin Jonquil, and discovered I was wrong. All my life I kept hoping you were out there somewhere and that when I found you, you would love me.”
― Sarah M. Eden, As You Are

“I believe that your lack of partners had everything to do with the fact that the Duke of Kielder was standing at your shoulder with his hand resting rather ominously on the hilt of his dress sword."
"He scared them off," Athena surmised.
"Precisely.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Courting Miss Lancaster

“You look like the back end of an overworked farm mule.”
― Sarah M. Eden, The Kiss of a Stranger

“Adam crossed to her bed and pulled off the blanket. He reached her at the window and draped it over her shoulders. “Adam?” Persephone looked up at him, so obviously confused. “You should have come in when the wolves first started.” Adam made his way to the door. “Come in?” she repeated. “And curled up on the bed.” He stopped at the door and turned toward her, waiting. “You knew?” Persephone whispered, her face paling noticeably. “I . . . I thought . . . I thought you were asleep.” “Asleep?” Adam answered, with an ironic raise of his eyebrows. “That’s the problem.” “Problem?” “I can’t sleep.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“You will, once again, have to save me from myself. You have done that, you know.” “Saved you?” “My Persephone,” he whispered in her ear. “Do you know I would have come for you no matter how far you’d gone?” “Hades always came for Persephone,” she echoed his earlier explanation. He lightly kissed her again. “And she always returned home.” “Always,” Persephone repeated. “Always.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“Thank you.” Caroline grinned. “You’re the best uncle in the whole world!” “That is a rather bold declaration for a young lady with seven uncles,” Corbin’s twin, Jason, said from nearby, a chuckle in his tone. Seven included Crispin, Lord Cavratt. “Aren’t I your favorite uncle?” Jason smiled at Caroline. “You’re my favorite uncle in London,” Caroline clarified quite matter-of-factly. “I suppose I’ll have to be satisfied with that.” Jason shrugged.”
― Sarah M. Eden, As You Are

“Promise you will tell me all of your dreams, my love.” She didn’t pull out of his embrace. “My dreams?” “I intend to make them come true.” He kissed her forehead. “Every”—he shifted and kissed her cheek—“single”—he pressed a quick kiss to her lips—“dream.” “And if I told you that you already have?” He smiled. “Then you shall simply have to dream up more.”
― Sarah M. Eden, As You Are

“Every other guest has left the castle, Harry. Why haven’t you?” “I am here to be your conscience, Adam. To save you from yourself.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“I hit him,” Clara explained, feeling the need to tell Corbin. “With a stick.” “Not a frying pan?” Corbin asked with dry amusement.”
― Sarah M. Eden, As You Are

“No one is as dangerous as the Duke of Kielder.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“Chivalry was a poor substitute for love.”
― Sarah M. Eden, The Kiss of a Stranger

“I can do that, Your Grace.” The abigail apparently expected him to relinquish his duties. Adam silently shook his head, softly rubbing more blood from her ankle. “It is not seemly for a duke to be acting as a lady’s maid or a physician, Your Grace.” “Perhaps not.” Adam didn’t take his eyes from his task. “But a husband is charged with keeping his wife in sickness, is he not?” “Yes, Your Grace.” The maid sounded more confused than anything else. “Then I would venture that tending to my wife is perfectly seemly.” Lud, her ankle was terribly swollen, and tender, if her continued grimace were any indication. “It is highly unusual.” “And when has the Duke of Kielder cared what was usual?” The bones didn’t feel out of place. If anything, there might be a small crack. Persephone was fortunate in that, at least. “Yes, Your Grace.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“Thank you,” she said once more, stepping to where he was and lightly kissing his left cheek, placing her hand on Adam’s chest for support. She felt her face heat at the gesture of gratitude but did not regret her actions. She needed him to know that what he’d done went beyond the ordinary polite interest most people took in the suffering of others. Relieved that he, at least, didn’t object to her offering, Persephone smiled a little shyly and stepped away, determined to run all the way to her rooms and devour Linus’s letter. She didn’t manage a single step. Adam reached for her—something he’d never done before—and with a look of intense determination, he pulled her back to her previous position, hand pressed to his chest. He kissed her. Not on the cheek, not a friendly greeting, but a kiss unlike any she had experienced before, made even more remarkable by the fact that it was entirely unexpected.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“Sure enough, Alice ran toward them both, her doll held out threateningly as she giggled. “Dolly kisses for Mister!” “I am done for, Edmund.” Corbin made the observation quite dramatically, earning a grin from the boy. “Look after the horses, and tell your aunt Clara I . . . I was brave right to the end.”
― Sarah M. Eden, As You Are

“Authors are sick people.”
― Sarah M. Eden

“All of us are broken in some way, Miriam. How we respond to our troubles, the strength we show in our trials, is far more telling than any imperfection.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Healing Hearts

“You’re supposed to be fearsome and unkind, but I ain’t never seen a man care for his wife the way you did for Her Grace. And you apologize to someone who really ought to be beneath your notice. It’s not what people would expect from the Duke of Kielder.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone