Celeste Bradley > Celeste's Quotes

“No amount of careful grooming seemed to erase their impression that he was actually a foul and frightening ogre. It was enough to give a fellow self-doubts.”
― Celeste Bradley, Seducing the Spy

“It was if the devil himself had devised the perfect earthly torture for Lady Alicia Lawrence. “Now how will I occupy myself when I get to hell?”
― Celeste Bradley, Seducing the Spy

“You are the end, and the beginning.
...
When I die, my only regret will be that you could
never reside in my heart to hear how it sings
when you touch me.”
― Celeste Bradley, The Spy

“Sometimes I think I was better off not knowing any men. I truly had no idea they could be so very stupid." She sighed. "It's quite disappointing, really.”
― Celeste Bradley, The Duke Next Door

“Together, we soar.”
― Celeste Bradley, A Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man

“It was I who was conquered. In just seven nights, that fledgling goddess not only discovered that I had a heart, but she stole it forever, then cradled it in the palm of her hand.”
― Celeste Bradley, A Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man

“Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.”
― Celeste Bradley, The Impostor

“I wish you always the joyous summer you deserve and blame you not for fleeing the stark winter you saw in me.

-Stanton Horne, Lord Wyndham (in his letter to Lady Alicia)”
― Celeste Bradley, Seducing the Spy

“Husbands came and husbands went, but dreadful hair lasted forever.”
― Celeste Bradley, One Night with a Spy

“Simon decidió salvar la situación.
-James, hoy vamos a repasar cada momento de la noche en la que te capturaron.
Al parecer, el desayuno dejó de interesarle a su amigo, porque James colocó su tenedor lentamente dobre la mesa.
-Tenía la impresión de que ya lo habíamos hecho.
-No como vamos a hacerlo hoy.
Agatha asintió.
-Muy bien. Yo también quiero oírlo.
James se ruborizó de la manera más sorprendente.
-¡Aggie! Hubo algunos detalles muy importantes ese día. Cosas que tú no deberías oír.
-Oh, ¿Te refieres al hecho de que pasaste seis horas con tu amante esa noche? Por Dios, James, ¿Qué demonios hiciste durante seis horas enteras? A mí me consta que para eso se tarda muchísimo menos. ¿No es cierto, Simon?
Simon se atragantó con el último bocado que se había llevado a la boca. Esta vez le tocaba a él ruborizarse y evitar la mirada atónita de James.”
― Celeste Bradley

“I read once that despair... is when you are no longer able to sustain, even for the briefest moment, the notion that all will be well in the end.”
― Celeste Bradley, Scoundrel In My Dreams

“We ought to talk. Had four words ever put more fear into the heart of men around the world? He’d not heard them before himself, but ancient gender memory recognized them well. He was in for it now.”
― Celeste Bradley, Surrender to a Wicked Spy

“Love was not a drink one tasted and then rejected. Love was not something that could be avoided or arranged. Love was a highwayman, standing by the road of life, just waiting to strike at the reckless and the few.”
― Celeste Bradley, Desperately Seeking a Duke

“I have carried that ring every moment of the last twelve years. I bought it the day after I first saw you at the ball. The ruby reminded me of the rose gleaming in your black hair."
~Lord Malcom Ashford”
― Celeste Bradley, A Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man

“Four spies, a monosyllabic earl, an annoying heiress, an obnoxious young sot, two very pleasing ladies—although Olivia had scarcely spoken this evening—and the mother from hell.”
― Celeste Bradley, Surrender to a Wicked Spy

“A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.”
― Celeste Bradley

“Everything would work out and she wouldn’t have to tell Dane that the box full of ancient ivory penises was roaming freely about Kirkall Hall.”
― Celeste Bradley, Surrender to a Wicked Spy

“For a giddy moment Olivia wondered how that young man’s pay was entered into the palace housekeeping ledger. His Highness’s First Orderly of the Stool? Royal Stepping-stoolie?”
― Celeste Bradley, Surrender to a Wicked Spy

“Well, what do you think I should do?"

"Button raised a kindly brow. "Dow you want me to tell you if I think you should be wise, or unwise?"

"Well... yes."

Button smiled sadly. "But which is which?”
― Celeste Bradley, I Thee Wed

“How strange knowledge was. Once something was known, it could not be unknown, no matter how one might wish.”
― Celeste Bradley, I Thee Wed

“Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?" Atalanta Worthington”
― Celeste Bradley, With This Ring

“Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?" (Atalanta Worthington)”
― Celeste Bradley, With This Ring

“He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he’d read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn’t have to. He could turn about this moment and ride away. Yet that would mean leaving her forever.”
― Celeste Bradley, One Night with a Spy