Eva Devon > Quotes

“Love affairs always seem to go wrong in the ballads.”
― Eva Devon, The Rogue and I

“If you must train me to be a better duchess, I must train you to be a better man.”
― Eva Devon, The Spinster and the Rake

“You’ve got the right of it. My wife. . . my duchess, she must be beyond reproach. We can never be in the gossips’ stews.”
― Eva Devon, Wish Upon A Duke

“Derek Marcus Andrew Kent, the Duke of Chase, did not usually consider murder. Tonight was an exception.”
― Eva Devon, The Wedding Wager

“But I shall tell you that as we age, our intellect and emotions ripen. We come to understand that while we long for Utopia, we must live in the present world. And if we cannot find acceptance of it in some form, then we will die on the rack of misery.”
― Eva Devon, All About the Duke

“proclamation.”
― Eva Devon, The Rogue and I

“Yes, she did think of the world in terms of where one could read and one could not, and where a book might be damaged or not.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast and the Bookseller

“his”
― Eva Devon, Duke's Club Box Set: Books 1-3

“you two will begin a grand passion.”
― Eva Devon, Duke's Club Box Set: Books 1-3

“shat?”
― Eva Devon, The Earl and the Country Girl

“eschewed”
― Eva Devon, The Duke's Absolutely Mad Marriage

“so”
― Eva Devon, Duke's Club Box Set: Books 1-3

“For they understand books are meant to be surrounded by people and love.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast and the Bookseller

“One could not save the world in a single stroke. No, one had to build their new world day by day, action by action, brick by brick, person by person. And one could never give up, not in the face of shadow, not in the face of tyranny, not in the face of people doing everything they could to tear one down.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast's Betrothed

“supposed”
― Eva Devon, The Duke's Absolutely Mad Marriage

“For it is not what a gentleman should do. That’s what a beast would do. A beast would take what they want. And God help me, I want you.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast of Cornwall

“Heather Meadows was like the moon: glowing, beautiful, watching. But was she as cold and distant?”
― Eva Devon, The Beast of Cornwall

“So many people saw books only as a sign of wealth and power and not for what they actually were—portals to knowledge and wonder and amazement.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast and the Bookseller

“The Governess’s Absolutely Impossible Wish”
― Eva Devon, The Earl's Absolutely Merry Match

“money in and of itself was neither ill nor good, but the person who used it could create either heaven or hell.”
― Eva Devon, The Diamond's Absolutely Delicious Downfall

“He was failing again. His spirit sank. Would he never be able to be kind? He longed to be. To be that one thing his parents had done everything they could to pound out of him.”
― Eva Devon, A Rogue's Christmas Kiss

“man.”
― Eva Devon, Duke's Club Box Set: Books 1-3

“He was a small, petty, cruel little sniveling boy of a man who, if he did not get what he wanted, hurt the first thing in his path.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast's Beloved

“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.”
― Eva Devon, A Rogue's Christmas Kiss

“beyond”
― Eva Devon, Duke's Club Box Set: Books 1-3

“The scent,” she breathed, transfixed by her own bliss, “of the paper, the leather, the binding—the way the paper feels under my fingertips when I package them and when I put them together and hand them over to someone? I want to believe that they’re going to be cared for, and if they are disheveled at all, I want it to be because of great love.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast and the Bookseller

“An acrid taste filled her mouth. It was a terrible feeling to not exist.”
― Eva Devon, The Spinster and the Rake

“Kathryn”
― Eva Devon, Duke's Club Box Set: Books 1-3

“How had she abandoned the joy that her books had brought her and chosen fear? Because life… Life had pushed it at her. But then she understood. One had to defy reality. Reality would drag one down, wrap one up in chains, and try to swallow one up. One had to fight against that. One had to choose love. One had to choose joy. One had to choose happiness.”
― Eva Devon, The Beast and the Bookseller

“The point wasn’t to escape the bad. She was so very grateful her mother had taught her this long ago. But to survive the bad and to see the best, one always had to find the joy in simply being alive. There was a terrible beauty to this life if one could but see it,”
― Eva Devon, The Earl's Absolutely Merry Match