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“You are mine”
― Eliza Knight, A Lady's Charade

“Sharing her love with Blane, sharing her body… Seemed like the most glorious thing she could do. The one selfish act she could indulge in. The deciding factor in her life. Beyond all those things, she loved this man, and she wanted to love him in a way that would leave them both with an impression on their hearts.”
― Eliza Knight, The Highlander's Conquest

“Daniel needing to marry only further proved his importance to his clan. Was it possible a powerful chief stood before her? Myra cocked her head, more questions filling her mind. “Why are ye going to the Bruce?” Daniel shrugged. “I like to fight.” Myra laughed. “At least ye’re honest. I’ll be a widow before long.” He grinned and winked, thrilling her to her toes.”
― Eliza Knight, The Highlander's Lady

“Change is never easy for anyone. And yet we do not ever remain the same, do we? Every moment, every hour, of every day of our lives is a stumble from one variation of our existence to the next.
Constantly revolving, one can find it hard to adjust. Difficult to put one foot in front of the other without tripping over one's own well-polished shoes.
Deciphering whether the change was good, or better still, deciding that it must be good - or rather ignoring the unacceptableness - was a strength I possessed.”
― Eliza Knight, The Mayfair Bookshop

“I’m a Highlander, lass. All I need is my horse, my whisky and my woman.”
― Eliza Knight, The Highlander's Lady

“somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the far”
― Eliza Knight, The Highlander's Reward

“Have you ever noticed how good it feels to stretch? Take a moment, I'll wait.”
― Eliza Knight, The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan, Library Edition

“But, alas, our country was founded by Puritans, and it seems every now and then we settle back on our old roots.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“I would like that,” I said to Charlie, and I genuinely meant it. “I’ll show you around the city.” “Then I won’t disappoint you.” No words more magical could have been uttered to a girl who’d just dumped a man who disappointed her left and right.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“She danced for herself and hoped it would be enough.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“I want to marry ye.” His confession took her breath away. She took a step back, unsure of herself and the worth he thrust onto her. “Why?” Daniel shrugged. “Ye are fair bonny, lass. Ye’re brave and I like my women strong in mind as well as body.” She was flattered that he’d noticed those things about her and that he liked them. Most were turned off by how not simperish she was. Myra was no Rose. She was not likely to do what her husband told her, and she was likely to get into trouble with the gust of the wind.”
― Eliza Knight, The Highlander's Lady

“Without hope we are left only with despair.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“If there was one thing I’d learned in all the varied moments of my existence, it was that life itself was my most authentic performance yet.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“Grooves etched around my eyes and lines around my mouth suggested I was a woman who laughed unceasingly. That was the thing about me...I was very good at covering up my sorrows with a laugh or smile.”
― Eliza Knight, The Mayfair Bookshop

“If war taught me anything at all, it is this: time is short and not at all wasted on the pursuit of happiness.”
― Eliza Knight, The Mayfair Bookshop

“And I tried, I really tried. For my brother, for myself. For the memory of Charlie. For the lads whom I encouraged to keep going every day. But it was something I actively had to work at. Each day, I woke up, dragged a smile kicking and screaming onto my face, shoved out laughs, and each day it was harder.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“That anger was one of the many secrets he’d shared late at night as we’d lain in bed during those first few weeks of joyous marital bliss. The honeymoon, where all the secrets are spilled onto the pillow when darkness falls and all you can see is the flashing white of the moon glinting off teeth and eyes.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“There’s no one in the world like you, Adele Astaire. Don’t deprive them of yourself a single second longer.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“The truth was that the pain of losing people never faded; people merely learned to handle it better, made a conscious choice to seize the day.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“There was nothing better than living in the moment, embracing joy when it was there to be had, and letting go of all the little things that tried as they might to hold me back.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“Love wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, really. It wasn’t fairy tales. Or the grandly sweeping plot of a novel. Love was work. It was a partnership.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“I nodded. “I suppose it is human nature.” Violet smiled in the soldiers’ direction. “To celebrate the victories, even when the war is still being fought.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“The last time I’d had a break—a real break from daily dancing—was in 1909, when the Gerrymen pulled us off our show, declaring that child actors were exploited, comparing us to youngsters in sweatshops. I won’t lie and say it didn’t feel like that sometimes.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“He loved you. And you loved him. Even beyond the pain of loss, the frustration of vices, you never stopped. That’s admirable. You don’t know how to do anything without doing it fiercely. Without putting everything you have behind it. And you found your match in a man who was the Charlie in your Good-Time Charlie. A man who, even at his end, wanted only your happiness. Don’t put his memory to shame by becoming a shell of the woman he loved.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“I can see ye’re in a mood to be bossy. I suppose since ye’re a laird ye must be used to giving orders and having them obeyed. I’ll oblige ye this once, but in future, I will continue to question ye.”
― Eliza Knight, The Highlander's Lady

“A blessing it was, when books saved lives.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“Do ye trust me enough to follow me up the hill and see if the hot spring truly exists?"
"As cold as my toes are, I'd be willing to follow you if you said there was a fire lit by a dragon."
Catriona let out a little laugh. "We have only fairies here, ye can keep your dragons." Samuel winked.
"Which is mightier?"
"I'm surprised ye wouldn't think a dragon, sir," she said, steering her horse around the tall stones and then up the slippery slope behind them.
"Fairies have magic."
"And dragons have fire."
..."Fire is not always more potent than magic," Samuel called.”
― Eliza Knight, Kissing the Highlander

“destination. They sought relief from violence, murder. They’d been accepted into France, only to be shoved behind the barbed-wire fences of an internment camp for “their” safety. Nearly two hundred thousand souls were at Perpignan. The conditions there claimed four hundred lives a day. People who survived the treacherous journey only to die of typhoid, cholera, starvation and exhaustion.”
― Eliza Knight, The Mayfair Bookshop

“Our honeymoon had officially ended, though I may wager it was over before it began.”
― Eliza Knight, The Mayfair Bookshop

“Being from upper-class stock didn't always bode well for pin money. While Diana now lived a life of divine luxury with her new, wealthy husband - heir to the Guinness fortune - our parents had always kept a tight rein on what meager means their noble titles afforded them. We were cash poor always, to the point where our mother sold eggs from the family hens.”
― Eliza Knight, The Mayfair Bookshop