Nadine Millard > Quotes

“You have been driving slowly mad since the first time I saw you, so that is nothing new.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“I am your protector," he said softly, one hand wrapping around her waist, the other moving to remove leaves and twigs from her hair. "I am your knight. I would kill with my bare hands any man who dared to touch you without your consent. I would go to the ends of the earth for you. I WOULD SLAY DRAGONS FOR YOU.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“Caroline, I get jealous when those men breathe the same air as you," he answered matter-of-factly. "Of course I was jealous at the thought of you marrying one of them.”
― Nadine Millard, Seeking Scandal

“Why you?” he repeated, lifting his hands to cup her face. “How could it be anyone else?”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“reigns”
― Nadine Millard, An Unlikely Duchess

“Don’t you understand, angel? Anytime you’re around a man with eyes in his head, your virtue is always at risk.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“He was dangerous. And very handsome. So she would disapprove of him in public and happily ogle him when nobody was looking.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“stature”
― Nadine Millard, An Unlikely Duchess

“Why then had he felt that damned tug on his heart when she’d stepped into the room? Granted, it wasn’t the only part of him he’d felt a tug in, but that he could understand.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing

“Girls are pliable and pleasing. They do as they are told quietly and without fuss.” Carrington answered this firmly and with confidence, having had no experience of sisters or close female cousins. The marquess, however, had grown up with sisters and smirked at Carrington’s innocence and naivety.”
― Nadine Millard, An Unlikely Duchess

“Dammit, I can’t concentrate. You’re so beautiful,” he threw at her, sounding accusatory, like she was beautiful on purpose to spite him.”
― Nadine Millard, Mysterious Miss Channing