Love On A Midsummer Night Quotes

“He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay. He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car. Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty.

He left feeling that if he had searched harder he might have found her—that he was leaving her behind. The day-coach—he was penniless now—was hot. He went out to the open vestibule and sat down on a folding-chair, and the station slid away and the backs of unfamiliar buildings moved by. Then out into the spring fields, where a yellow trolley raced them for a minute with people in it who might once have seen the pale magic of her face along the casual street.

The track curved and now it was going away from the sun which, as it sank lower, seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath. He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“She froze with him, the beauty draining out of the moment, sliding down and away from her like warm water down a drain. She clutched at the warmth, at the joy she had experienced, but she could not hold it. Like all good things, it was not meant to last.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“He drew her down to lie across his chest, wrapping his arms around her as if to protect her from the world and from all the people in it.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I am sorry he hurt you," Pembroke said. "I would kill him, too, if he still lived.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“You will never know pain again, Arabella. I swear it. I will stand between you and what would harm you every day for the rest of my life.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She did not think of the loss of the past or of the loss to come. She simply lay with her head on her lover's chest, sweet touches the only talk between them.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I knew you'd have him. I knew it the first time I laid eyes on you together.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She followed his lead and let herself move without thinking, an unaccustomed luxury.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“The warm sun caught in the green of the leaves overhead, setting dappled shadow to dance across her face as Pembroke held her in his arms. He waltzed with her over the uneven ground as if tree roots and broken leaves did not exist, as if they were alone in a world of their own making.

He stopped suddenly but did not let her go. He held her close so that she could feel the heat of his body against hers and the beat of his heart.

"I had better stop," he said. "There are no Almack's ladies to keep me on my best behavior here."

"I find I like your roguish ways, Raymond. Feel free to practice them on me anytime you wish.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She kissed him, her lips lingering on his. It was Pembroke who pulled away, raising his glass to her.

"To Lady Pembroke, the only woman I will ever love.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I have loved you all my life. I will always love you.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She wanted him with a consuming hunger, but she did not throw herself at him.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She knew that he loved her, but she also knew that he meant to tempt her to abandon her future, and to join her life to his.

But she had been married once already. A wife belonged body and soul to her husband. She did not exist under the law but could be put away or ignored at his will. She could be cut off without a penny, no matter what dowry she brought to the match. A wife was nothing, a nonentity, a ghost. As much as she loved Pembroke, as much as she always would, she was alive. She had fought hard for her life, and she would keep it.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Their time together was a stolen season.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I'll explain later. It is too fine a day for melodrama.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“His voice was husky when he answered her, strangled with longing and with all that they could not speak of again.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Though his longing to keep her was palpable, it matched her longing for him.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I love you, Raymond. Now and forever. I think that love is eternal for me.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“If that's what you want, Arabella, you shall have it. Never let it be said that I said no to a lady.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“For some reason, this small sorrow was the thing that brought tears to her eyes.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“He's a madman."

"So am I."

"He's a killer."

"I can claim that, too.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I will sign away my own life if it will comfort you. It belongs to you already.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I will never touch another woman as long as I live. You are the only woman I want for the rest of my life. So help me God.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“He clutched her hard, as if she might turn to insubstantial air and fade away. Only then did she know how much this day had cost him.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“I love you, Raymond. And our love is enough."

He kissed her, his lips lingering on her as if to seal their words between them.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“You are incorrigible."

"A rogue of the first water. But your rogue, Lady Pembroke."

She kissed him. "My rogue. I like the sound of that."

"Good," he said. "You'll need the rest of your life to get used to it, I expect.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“But she wanted it all to be over. She wanted to move on with her life.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“You do not deserve a rogue like me, Arabella. But you have me. I am yours, for the rest of my life."

"And I am yours," she said.

"God help me," he quipped.

Arabella laughed, shoving her elbow in his side. He laughed with her, his lips playing over hers until all else was forgotten.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“She lay back against the soft carpet and bedding, contentment filling every curve of her body and every limb, overflowing in her heart.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“Forever is a long time," he said.

He lifted her in his arms and carried her toward the soft feathered mattress of their marriage bed. "Our love will last at least that long," she said.

He kissed her, his lips lingering over hers. "Longer.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night