Eloisa James > Quotes

“I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.”
― Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.”
― Eloisa James, An Affair Before Christmas

“If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.”
― Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

“A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar.”
― Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

“I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.”
― Eloisa James, Paris in Love

“If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it."
"He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in.
"Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.”
― Eloisa James, Duchess By Night

“God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“Neythen looked perplexed. 'My mum always said I'm named after a saint, not an illness.'

'Which one?'

'Well he had his head chopped off, see? And then he picked it up and carried it down the road a time. All the way back home, I think.'

'Messy,' Piers said. 'Not to mention unlikely, though one has to think of chickens and their post-mortal abilities. Did she think that you would inherit the same gift?'

Neythen blinked. 'No, my lord.'

'Perhaps she was just hopeful. It behooves mothers to look ahead to this sort of possibility, after all. I'm tempted to behead you just to see if she was right.Sometimes the most unlikely superstitions turn out to have a basis in fact.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.”
― Eloisa James, The Ugly Duchess

“Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.”
― Eloisa James, A Duke of Her Own

“Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“Life does not always gives us the choices that we want”
― Eloisa James, A Duke of Her Own

“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”
― Eloisa James

“He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.”
― Eloisa James, The Ugly Duchess

“One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy.
But when they actually got to the guardhouse?
Trollopy.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.”
― Eloisa James, This Duchess of Mine

“I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.”
― Eloisa James, When the Duke Returns

“Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?'

'Neythen, my lord.'

'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.”
― Eloisa James, Paris in Love

“I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.”
― Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

“I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.”
― Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

“There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“I did it,” Gabriel said, conversationally. “I met the woman, the only woman for me. I met her, and now . . . I’m going to meet my wife.”
― Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

“Give me one last time,” he begged. “Please, please. I beg you.” “I—” She stopped and started again. “I’m afraid, Gabriel. You’ll break my heart.” “Mine is already broken.”
― Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

“Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.”
― Eloisa James, The Ugly Duchess