Laura London > Quotes

“It’s at your most lunatic moments that I can resist you least.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“There's more to love than two pelvises in a tussle.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“Gypsies, ma! Gypsies! They’ve come to steal me away!”
― Laura London, Gypsy Heiress

“Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“Chopped up fairy wings, the heart of a narwhal taken during a lunar eclipse, spit from a consumptive.… Christ. Just drink it, will you?”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“its muscles white and glistening beneath its creamy hide, its chest broad and heaving, its horn poised and thick.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“August passed like a dancer, graceful and sweating.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“he smiled at her as though he had not with a single sentence blown the sane structure of her life into slithering fragments.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“It’s one thing to watch someone row; it’s quite another to try it oneself in heavy seas, and this was a bad moment to begin wondering if the American privateers on the Good Shepherd would be certain to help her and if there was any chance that Devon might have lied about the Shepherd’s identity.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“The hostage hours had blurred into one another, anonymous as a line of smashed pumpkins.”
― Laura London, The Windflower

“I’d love to see him lay a single strip on her white back. It would be the most potent lesson either of them ever got.”
― Laura London, The Windflower