Pamela Aidan > Quotes

“He loved her. It was as simple and as complicated as that.”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain

“Your move should be determined by your strengths, not your opponent's expectations.' Darcy's smile deepened as he warmed to her allusion to fencing. 'Always move to your advantage.”
― Pamela Aidan, Duty and Desire

“Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before.”
― Pamela Aidan, Duty and Desire

“admit it, man. He watched the shadows dance to the flicker of his candle, giving himself just a little more time before committing himself to what would change his life forever." You love her." He whispered the words quietly to himself so that he could hear them from his own lips." You love her.”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain

“Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain

“The world had become a much more interesting place, filled with fellow travelers whose joys and sorrows he no longer disdained to know and whose shortcomings he was far more inclined to overlook.”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain

“Good Lord, Dy, you all but called the man an idiot to his face!” “I beg your pardon, Fitz; I was under the distinct impression that I had!”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain

“He had been the recipient, he now gratefully acknowledged, of a rare and precious gift. In demanding the hand of a woman he neither understood nor was capable of knowing, he had instead received from her the chance to see himself and the opportunity to become a better man. And he had changed. He knew he had. He knew that he was not that man stalking angrily back to his chambers in Rosings Hall. What had happened to him in those intervening months? He was not sure; he could offer no complete explanation, but the man who had opened Rosings's doors, already prepared to write an angry letter, was a stranger, a man who had been walking through his entire life asleep. But now, he had awoken.”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain

“Part of my soul…Adam’s words, his own words, spoken that long ago night broke over him; and his soul, comprehending what his reason could not, rushed to claim, to embrace that other half of itself with a joyful recognition that made him light-headed and tempted him to commit unforgivable liberties.”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain

“Only the rich can afford character, but most of them soon to dispense with it soon enough. They just have the money or the power to buy their way out of trouble before the whispers get too loud, but poor men...poor men are judged without mercy.”
― Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain