Lenora Bell > Quotes

“Some contend that one ounce of cocoa contains as much nourishment as one pound of beef. man could subsist on chocolate alone if he had to.”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“Every time he looked at me I felt like I was standing in a tree-lined avenue, and the branches had interlaced into a canopy above me, surrounding me. It was the kind of green that told the sun what color to be as it filtered through the leaves.” “Oh,”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“I’m well aware of that. But now one of the buttons on my coat sleeve is caught as well.” “What if I—” “Don’t twist like that!” Now they were even more entangled. “What if you shed your coat?” she asked. Shed his coat. What a brilliant idea. And while he was at it, why didn’t he just strip off her gown as well? His shirt and trousers. Her chemise. Set this stage box a-rocking. Really give the guests a show they’d never forget.”
― Lenora Bell, What a Difference a Duke Makes

“You see, Mr. Grafton,” Miss Perkins gave his engineer a teasing smile. “I laughed at His Grace’s miniature engine the other day, and now he needs to impress upon me the grandeur of his foundry.” “Compensating for something, is he?” “I’ve no idea,” she laughed. Edgar saw red. Grafton was going to pay for that one later. He stalked into place beside them. “Don’t encourage her.”
― Lenora Bell, What a Difference a Duke Makes

“You know I have to marry.” James attempted a blasé shrug of his shoulders. “May as well be tomorrow.” “You don’t fool me, you know.” Nick tore apart a roll and slathered it with butter. “Leave it to you to do something as disreputable as fall in love with your own wife.”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“Please God, no more nipples, he prayed.”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“Tonight she could dream in his arms. Tomorrow she must tell him the truth.”
― Lenora Bell, What a Difference a Duke Makes

“She capsized my rowboat searching for some rare bird she saw in the trees,” James said. “Then she caught her skirts on a rock and nearly drowned, and I had to cut her loose with my knife.” Dalton grinned widely. “Splendid. At this rate I’ll win the wager before sundown.” “What? Are you mad?” “I’ll even increase the stakes. Five hundred pounds.” “You are mad.” James dropped into a chair. “You see what she did to my cuffs?” He held up his muddied sleeves. “And just look at my boots.” “Since when do you care? Always been unfashionably rough-clad.” “Yes, but the boots are only the start. Imagine what she would do to my heart.”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“In Edgar’s experience, plans made by inebriated lords usually failed.”
― Lenora Bell, What a Difference a Duke Makes

“It’s a very formidable operation, Mr. Grafton.” “Extremely.” “I’m quite relieved, you know,” she said, loud enough for the duke to hear. He was following them and looking quite put out. “And why is that, Miss Perkins?” “I had thought the duke meant to get rid of me today.” “Indeed?” Mr. Grafton sent a confused glance in the duke’s direction. “Oh yes, but now I know he won’t.” “And why is that?” asked Mr. Grafton, playing into her hands perfectly. “Because he’s obviously trying to impress me, instead.”
― Lenora Bell, What a Difference a Duke Makes

“Please God, no more nipples, he prayed. He wouldn’t be responsible for the consequences.”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“The duke’s soaked buckskin breeches clung to his physique, outlining every well-defined muscle in his posterior and thighs. Heat flooded Charlene’s cheeks, keeping her warm despite the cold, wet gown. He was a front-page scandal, the picture of sin itself. His Disgrace, in skintight breeches and transparent linen, leading his flock of debutantes into the woods.”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“But it wasn’t Miss Tombs’s dimples that plagued him. He kept revisiting that oddly perfect moment as he drowned in Lady Dorothea’s stormy gaze. The moment right before she tumbled him arse over elbow. Get a hold of yourself.”
― Lenora Bell, How the Duke Was Won

“Oh,” she exclaimed. “You changed the motto. Amor Vincit Omnia.” “Love conquers all.” Edgar kissed her cheek. “It conquered me and I was a heavily armed fortress.”
― Lenora Bell, What a Difference a Duke Makes

“Now I can do this.” Her fingers closed around the flap of his breeches, cupping his cock. “A duke in the hand is worth two in the bush,” she said, with a wicked grin.”
― Lenora Bell, What a Difference a Duke Makes

“She was doing her very best to maintain her distance, and then he described her wine with poetic perfection, or encouraged a vulnerable child to keep reading, which was custom-designed to seduce both her mind and heart.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“Enough,” Ash roared. “I’ll never become a respectable duke’s heir, reading by the fire of an evening in a velvet dressing gown, wearing fur-lined slippers. Dull. Unthinking. And I’ll never be weak enough to fall in love. I’ve seen what it does to a man. Flays you, exposes your innards to the vultures. Makes you lose your edge.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“Woman. You’re torturing me. Please.” “Are you begging for my touch, Ash?” “You win, Hetty. You won a long time ago. I’m not ashamed to beg.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“He was hard-edged. Cast in bronze. He was danger. She felt it like an icy wind at her back.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“He backed her against the wall, covering her with his powerful body, cupping her face in his warm, strong hands. He gazed into her eyes. “That, my lady, was only the precursor to a kiss. You can’t cross anything off your list yet. This is a kiss.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“I’m not a goddess on a pedestal. I’m just a woman with a head full of fairy tales who dreams of moonlit kisses.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“Danger meant he knew that he was alive, that his heart was still pumping. He wasn’t like the law-abiding citizens in their stone houses behind iron gates, their only aspiration a grave plot with a marble headstone. A crypt if they were lucky. Watched over by a stone angel. Sleep through life and then Rest in Peace. No thank you. He lived on the knife’s edge of life. Pursuing bigger and better prizes.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“It amuses me to leave it a mystery for now.” His slate-gray eyes glinted with devilish humor. “Haven’t you always wanted to waltz with a mysterious and devastatingly handsome stranger?”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“I've never heard of an Aunt Matilda."
"She was your father's eldest sister. No one spoke of her."
"Why, what did she do?"
"She married a bookseller”
― Lenora Bell, Love Is a Rogue

“An unread book is a terrible thing.”
― Lenora Bell, Love Is a Rogue

“Don’t you see any pleasing prospects, Papa?” “The only prospect that pleases me is a bottle of good old Scotch whisky and a box of the mildest Havana cigars.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“She made him thirst for more than wealth, more than the power to change the world. Holding her made his life before he met her seem hollow and cold, like an empty wine glass. She was everything effervescent and tart-sweet, everything intoxicating.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“A maid began to scrape the bottom of his feet with a rough stone. Could it be possible that the arch of one’s foot was an erotic area?”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke

“One can never have too many books,”
― Lenora Bell, Love Is a Rogue

“Jax burst out laughing. “What? What’s so hilarious?” “Can you hear yourself? Hetty this, and Hetty that. You’ve fallen in love with her.” “I haven’t. I admire her. I want to help.” “Uh-huh.”
― Lenora Bell, The Devil's Own Duke