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“You will get no poetry from me, nor songs of love. But I will love you, every day for the rest of my life.”
― Christy English, To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine

“She was a woman of combined beauty and quiet strength. No wonder he had fallen in love with her so many years ago. No wonder he was in love with her now.
And she would never know it.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“You are incorrigible."

"A rogue of the first water. But your rogue, Lady Pembroke."

She kissed him. "My rogue. I like the sound of that."

"Good," he said. "You'll need the rest of your life to get used to it, I expect.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I did not know what desire was until I saw you," she said to him.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“He felt the knife of her old betrayal slide into his heart, a smooth, unexpected caress of pain.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Another woman seemed to have taken over her body, and yet she had never felt more completely herself. And it was not wine this time, or mead, for she had not taken a drop. This night she was drunk on her love for him and on the fact that, for this night, he was hers.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I am sorry he hurt you," Pembroke said. "I would kill him, too, if he still lived.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She froze with him, the beauty draining out of the moment, sliding down and away from her like warm water down a drain. She clutched at the warmth, at the joy she had experienced, but she could not hold it. Like all good things, it was not meant to last.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“blithe”
― Christy English, How to Wed a Warrior

“There is no need to thank me. No honorable man would turn his back on a woman in need." . . .

"No, I suppose not . . . But I have never before known an honorable man.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She knew that he loved her, but she also knew that he meant to tempt her to abandon her future, and to join her life to his.

But she had been married once already. A wife belonged body and soul to her husband. She did not exist under the law but could be put away or ignored at his will. She could be cut off without a penny, no matter what dowry she brought to the match. A wife was nothing, a nonentity, a ghost. As much as she loved Pembroke, as much as she always would, she was alive. She had fought hard for her life, and she would keep it.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I have loved you all my life. I will always love you.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I'll explain later. It is too fine a day for melodrama.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“If that's what you want, Arabella, you shall have it. Never let it be said that I said no to a lady.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I will never touch another woman as long as I live. You are the only woman I want for the rest of my life. So help me God.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“All she could see in Raymond's eyes was sorrow and an unspoken longing that reminded her of her own pain.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She had run from men's anger all her life, and when she could not run, she had hidden within herself. But now, standing with Pembroke, she did not feel threatened. Some secret part of her soul was certain that he would never hurt her.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Longer.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“But she wanted a home like this. She longed for it, for a place to belong, with almost a physical pain.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“But Caroline knew that no matter what vows she uttered that day, she belonged to herself.”
― Christy English, How to Tame a Willful Wife

“You do not deserve a rogue like me, Arabella. But you have me. I am yours, for the rest of my life."

"And I am yours," she said.

"God help me," he quipped.

Arabella laughed, shoving her elbow in his side. He laughed with her, his lips playing over hers until all else was forgotten.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Pembroke simply sat and stared at her, trying desperately to ignore the knife lodged in his chest. She had set that knife there ten years before. It was still there, just where she had placed it, cutting his heart in two.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“If he would not listen to her, there was nothing left to say.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“In spite of all that had happened between them, she remembered one simple truth. Every promise Pembroke had ever made to her, he kept.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“For some reason, this small sorrow was the thing that brought tears to her eyes.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“You will never know pain again, Arabella. I swear it. I will stand between you and what would harm you every day for the rest of my life.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Forever is a long time," he said.

He lifted her in his arms and carried her toward the soft feathered mattress of their marriage bed. "Our love will last at least that long," she said.

He kissed her, his lips lingering over hers. "Longer.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“This moment was what he had waited for all his life. This moment was why he had not died in Spain, or Italy, or Belgium. He had lived so that he might one day stand with her like this.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She would think of the future later, but she would wear this gown tonight.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Their time together was a stolen season.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night