Christi Caldwell > Quotes

“Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you're mine, if you should call forth the stars, I'll bring them down to you.”
― Christi Caldwell, Once a Wallflower, At Last His Love

“You may have forgotten how to use it because it’s been so hurt, but it is there and someday you will find the person who teaches that organ to again beat.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Love of a Rogue

“Life is horrible and unfair and terrifying. But those are not reasons to stop living.”
― Christi Caldwell, For Love of the Duke

“Are you calling into question my honor, ma’am?” he demanded in terse ducal tones his grandfather would have been impressed by. The woman snorted. “I expect if you cannot tell that I am, then I should also call into question your intelligence.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Rogue's Wager

“Sometimes honesty and cruelty go hand in hand, do they not?” she asked softly and released the curtain. It fluttered into place. “Sometimes honesty can be the greatest form of cruelty.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Scoundrel's Honor

“How odd, to have a mother, a father, a brother and frequent visitors, and yet still be lonely…I”
― Christi Caldwell, Forever Betrothed, Never the Bride

“By God, I can’t sort out whether you’re insolent as brass or missing a brain between your ears.” “If I’m forced to choose from solely those two options? The former.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Heiress's Deception

“Forlorness. An unspoken sadness that required no words.”
― Christi Caldwell, A Marquess for Christmas

“I can give you the love I feel that was slowly kindled and cultivated, just like the flowers you tend.”
― Christi Caldwell, Forever Betrothed, Never the Bride

“Gossip was nothing more than a kernel of truth cooked within masterful lies, then expertly fed to a voracious lot of people who thrived off those falsities.”
― Christi Caldwell, Captivated by a Lady's Charm

“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
― Christi Caldwell, Forever Betrothed, Never the Bride

“It fairly oozed roguish appeal.”
― Christi Caldwell, My Lady of Deception

“I was trying so hard, and I was so frustrated, that I could not see anything beyond the pressure I placed on myself.” Ryker”
― Christi Caldwell, The Scoundrel's Honor

“And you, well I wouldn't wed you if you were the last creature in the world, and the king decreed it to spare my life.”
― Christi Caldwell, For Love of the Duke

“I'd not wed you if you were the last creature in the kingdom.”
― Christi Caldwell, For Love of the Duke

“Marry me knowing that there may be struggles and sadness, and that we, with each other’s love, will find strength and joy in one another.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Rogue's Wager

“Why would the blasted organ splinter apart if she weren't in love with him?”
― Christi Caldwell, For Love of the Duke

“Dear God, she’d married an arse. An utter arse. A handsome arse. But an arse, none the less. There was really no other way to put it. Could he truly hate to be married to her so much? She’d always rather thought herself a good catch.”
― Christi Caldwell, 'Twas the Night Before Scandal

“He’d ceased believing at the hand of his father, the person who should have loved him unconditionally instead taught him that love, in fact, had conditions.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Love of a Rogue

“The boughs of ancient trees, swimming under snow, towered overhead. This was beauty. This was something which could repair the soul. After all, if this forest could survive hundreds of years of change and still remain majestic and awe inspiring, surely she could overcome her own personal losses.”
― Christi Caldwell, 'Twas the Night Before Scandal

“If a single look could kill, he’d have been a dead heap at her furious feet.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Heart of a Scoundrel

“For all the great many aspects of life that changed, the mundane matters continued to march on with a tedious predictableness.”
― Christi Caldwell, Loved by a Duke

“It had taken but one fateful day to realize no one was immune to peril; it could and ultimately did visit those of every station. As such, “safe” wasn’t what she required. It wasn’t what she needed. But it was what she intended to help make the world.”
― Christi Caldwell, In the Dark with the Duke

“I fear if you truly believe that, you live a very lonely, sad existence.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Love of a Rogue

“No scandals. No elopements or rushed marriages. You are to be everything and all things proper. All the time. Those words had become a mantra so familiar in their household that the Tidemore girls had taken to concluding their mother’s prayer with a firm “Amen”. Of which she was wholly unappreciative each time. Alas,”
― Christi Caldwell, Captivated by a Lady's Charm

“Not since life taught him the perils of love.”
― Christi Caldwell, For Love of the Duke

“And do you wish to see this widower son?” Jane asked hesitantly.
“No, I do not. Nor do I want my mother or brother’s interference in my life. And I certainly don’t wish to guard my words and laughter. Or to be dull and bored by life.”
Jane gave a pleased nod. “Then live for yourself and show your daughters how life can be, and should be, lived,” she said.”
― Christi Caldwell, To Woo a Widow

“Marabelle was made of stern stuff. It mattered not that she’d never laid eyes upon the man she was about to call husband or that his reputation as a rake and rogue had preceded him. No, she was going to make the best of it, as anyone worth their salt did, and that was certain.”
― Christi Caldwell, 'Twas the Night Before Scandal

“Lord Sebastian Rutherford, the twelfth Earl of Gray, hated weddings. He hated England. He hated ladies. But most of all, Lord Sebastian Rutherford hated Christmas.”
― Christi Caldwell, 'Twas the Night Before Scandal

“What if I don’t want to be free?”
― Christi Caldwell, Forever Betrothed, Never the Bride