Kasey Michaels > Quotes

“So this is what it's like to be in love?" he mused quietly. And then he frowned. "Damn. Now what do I do?”
― Kasey Michaels

“If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends... and so much more.”
― Kasey Michaels, How to Tempt a Duke

“We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all I can think of is the brilliance of yet another ancient Greek, Sophocles. He said, 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life-that word is love.' I love you, Lisette. You bring my life joy I've never known. Please, marry me.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Return of the Prodigal

“Come away with me now, sweet tease, and we will pleasure each other all the night long. We will strip off these masks, and with them rid ourselves of all inhibition. You do not yet know me, but I will soon know your every delectable inch, taste your nectar, explore your most intimate, womanly secrets. I will take you where you have never been, touch you in ways you have never been touched. Until you weep with the joy of it.”
― Kasey Michaels, A Midsummer Night's Sin

“They could flee to Paris. To America. He had the money; she'd want for nothing. He'd take the mother, if she insisted. The mother, the maid, her pet spaniel, if she had one. He'd go anywhere, dare anything, to have her.

And he knew nothing about her.

Was love insanity, or insanity love?”
― Kasey Michaels, A Midsummer Night's Sin

“I like being in control," was all Keely said, looking at him. She could have said, "I hate for anyone to know I don't know everything, that I sometimes feel so out of my depth that three lifesavers wouldn't keep me from drowning," but she didn't "What's so wrong with that?”
― Kasey Michaels, Love To Love You Baby

“I've wanted this for so long."
Emmaline thought that a lovely thing to say. "We barely know each other."
"No. We've known each other forever, my dearest one, always known the other of us was out there somewhere in the world, waiting. We only just happened to meet today.”
― Kasey Michaels, How to Woo a Spinster

“It was The Aeneid that had included the fascinating story of the Trojan Horse. Why anyone would accept a gift from a departing, defeated army had made no sense to her then and still did not. But, again, men had made the decision, probably drunk with their victory. Any woman would look at such a gift and wonder why it had been given, and then have someone quickly dispose of it.”
― Kasey Michaels, A Midsummer Night's Sin

“The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~”
― Kasey Michaels, More Than Words Volume 3: An Anthology

“以外の女性に生ませた何十人もの子どもを棄ててプリンセスと名のつく女性を見つけ”
― Kasey Michaels, テムズの恋人たち

“is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning, and flattery.’ Cicero.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane

“Lucinda,” she finally returned most cordially, “if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the remainder of my days and must needs choose between your company and that of an organ-grinder’s flea-bitten monkey, I should not hesitate a moment before opting for the latter.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane

“At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner of”
― Kasey Michaels, Everything's Coming Up Rosie

“But I will tell you that it’s maddening to me that men seem to know which way is north, and which way is west—and are always overweeningly proud about that accomplishment, by the way—and yet still you all more than likely will manage to get us poor women lost.” “Are you referring to all men, or to your father and brother?” “My father, brother and you,” she corrected sweetly.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Taming of the Rake

“O! call back yesterday, bid time return.”
― Kasey Michaels, Waiting for You

“a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.’ Sophocles.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.’ Shakespeare.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane

“No, you never lose. You simply find other ways to win.”
― Kasey Michaels, A Reckless Promise

“He was his mother’s son, kind and gentle. She was her father’s daughter, quick of mind, fascinated by intrigue and all that went with it. But”
― Kasey Michaels, Much Ado About Rogues

“manicured grounds of well-hidden mansions. At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner”
― Kasey Michaels, Everything's Coming Up Rosie

“Let’s just say, brat, that if the wits beneath your golden hair were any dimmer you would be not a female, but a dandelion,”
― Kasey Michaels, The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane

“Even Saints, I believe, are never cannonized until years after they've been carried to bed on six men's shoulders.”
― Kasey Michaels, How to Beguile a Beauty

“slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for”
― Kasey Michaels, Everything's Coming Up Rosie

“Wisely and slow. They stumble that ran fast. — William Shakespeare”
― Kasey Michaels, Waiting for You

“Enough, I say. Our guests will be arriving shortly, and I would as lief they were left in the dark about this particular strain of insanity in the family that makes you two revert to childhood at the drop of a napkin.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane

“I just see what is needed, and I do it; find a lack, and fill it. Which makes it easier for me to be happy, for my life to be easier. Does sincerity—or honesty, as you call it—matter all that much, when everyone is happy? And that’s why we’re here, isn’t it, Your Grace? To be happy? Certainly we aren’t here to be sad.”
― Kasey Michaels, Enterprising Ladies Regency Boxed Set

“But it is the actions of a moment that often have the most permanent of consequences.”
― Kasey Michaels, The Taming of the Rake