Amy Rose Bennett > Quotes

“No one is perfect, Tessa, least of all me. We all have scars. Some are a little less obvious, but they are there all the same.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, All She Wants for Christmas

“Have any of you been inside before?”

MacQueen gave a soft huff of laughter. “Aye. At Covent Garden a few years back. Lady Astley and I shared a theater box. But a gentleman isn’t supposed to kiss and tell, is he?”

“I meant the town house, you dog. Not the countess.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, How to Catch a Wicked Viscount

“I see,” said Artemis carefully. “I take it that she is still willing to receive me? Dominic—I mean, His Grace—informed me that it was all arranged.” As she spoke, she raised her bare left hand to her throat to quite unnecessarily fiddle with the lace of her collar. Drawing Miss Sharp’s attention to her ruby and diamond engagement ring was equally as petty, but Artemis couldn’t seem to help herself. The governess was infuriatingly supercilious.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“For most of her life, she’d always taken the path decorum dictated. But not today. Today she felt curious and reckless. Enlivened.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, An Improper Christmas

“Would it help if I told you that I, too, know that feeling of being drunk with deep emotion?” added Christopher in a low, tender voice. “That whenever I’m with you like this, I feel as though I’m intoxicated. As though I’ve downed an entire bottle of potent brandy and my head is spinning with the wonder of it all. And when you’re not here, it feels like all the air has gone out of the room. That all the lights have been snuffed out. That somehow my day is not complete unless you are in it.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“He dipped his head and claimed her willing mouth, his lips and tongue tenderly tasting and worshipping hers. She threaded her fingers through his thick hair and hummed low in her throat. This feeling, of being both desired and loved, was divine.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, An Improper Christmas

“Somehow, some way, despite all the trial and tribulations they’d been through and were yet to face, they’d forged an unbreakable bond. An everlasting love. Jane could feel it in Christopher’s kiss. In his touch as his hands swept over her body.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“The fireplace was crafted from marble veined with gray and red, and the furniture, rugs, and curtains were all of high quality. She caught her reflection in the large, gilt-framed mirror above the mantelpiece and grimaced. What a forbidding figure she presented, dressed all in black with her face obscured by her veil. Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, was an apt name indeed.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, My Lady of Misrule

“Dear God, you’ll never know how overjoyed I am to hear you say that, my darling Minerva. So now I’ll ask you again.” Tristan brought her hands to his chest. Clasped them close to his heart. “Will you marry me? Will you be my wife? The only one who will warm my bed and own my heart forevermore?”
― Amy Rose Bennett, My Lady of Misrule

“Good Lord. Was everyone in London set against Mary Wollstonecraft? The poor woman had been dead nigh on sixty years.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“When Tessa finally stirred the next morning, it was with a yawn followed by a very happy, very satisfied smile. Her wedding night had been both glorious and a revelatory experience in more ways than one.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, All She Wants for Christmas

“Despite all of her other reservations and doubts about the future, she was absolutely certain that she wouldn’t regret spending the night in the arms of the Duke of Roxby.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Good Lord above. Jane had never seen so many bare breasts and behinds in all her life.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“It was as though her imagination had conjured him up—the epitome of a darkly brooding, Byronic hero who’d stepped out of the pages of one of her own books.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“She’d changed out of her evening finery into a robe of sky-blue satin, and as far as he could see, she wore nothing else. At all. Thank God. If he’d had to deal with corsets and crinolines and bloody drawers again, he’d have gone mad.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Come for me, Jane,” he grunted between panted breaths. “I want to watch you come around my ramming cock. I want to watch your face as I fill you with my seed.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“In case you didn’t already know, my love, I never intend to let you go. I belong to you, and you belong to me.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“God, yes.” He grasped her waist, holding her steady while his other hand dragged the head of his cock toward her entrance. “Fuck me. Use me. I’ll give you everything I have and more.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“But what if he had? What if... what if she’d wanted him to pursue her and all this time he’d been completely ignoring her for pathetic, misguided reasons which no longer made any sense to him.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, My Lady of Misrule

“Oh dear. Jane’s chest tightened with guilt. How awful she must seem. How callous. “I did,” she said. Even though she had no idea what the duke’s malady might be, she added, “And I apologize unreservedly for my thoughtless words, Your Grace. My own affliction, so to speak”—she gestured at her left cheek—“has perhaps influenced my thinking. I shouldn’t have mocked you. That was unaccountably rude.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“He made her feel alive. Real. A woman of flesh and bone. Of panted breaths and tingling nerves and a racing heart. She was somehow more than the drifting shadow she’d been for so long.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“you were right,” she murmured into the velvet shadows. “I forgot everything but you.” Christopher caught her hand and raised it to his lips. “Now you know how I feel,” he murmured. “All I see is you, Jane. All I think about is you. You consume me.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“As luck or misfortune would have it, it also appears that whenever we meet, I’m dripping wet.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Oh, how shockingly wanton she’d become. And how unremorseful. To own one’s joy in sexual pleasure was liberating and she wouldn’t be ashamed about that.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“I want you helpless,” he breathed against her lips when he at last came up for air. “Writhing in ecstasy and completely at my mercy. I’m going to take you, and take you some more until you are shuddering and boneless and incoherent with pleasure. Do you understand, Jane?”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“We all need a little diversion sometimes, and I, too, rely on a good book to help me escape from reality time and time again.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Alas,” said Artemis with a deep sigh, “it is a truth never universally acknowledged that a single woman—whether she is in possession of a good fortune or not—doesn’t necessarily want or even need a husband.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Up All Night with a Good Duke

“Yes…” She smiled softly and her green eyes glowed warmly like a forest pool lit by sunlight on a summer’s day. And Christopher was transfixed. What was it about this woman that had him in such a lather? He was not the sort of man to wax lyrical about anyone’s eyes, or be stirred by a voice or even the scent of a woman’s soap.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“Wrap those spectacular legs around me, love,” he murmured. “I’m about to make you mine.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, Tall, Duke, and Scandalous

“It had been her experience that fear of the unknown was always worse than facing the object of one’s fear.”
― Amy Rose Bennett, All She Wants for Christmas