Victorian Romance Quotes

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace.
But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you by 130 pounds, how could you possibly be afraid of me!" He laughed.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“Alexandra Malkovic woke out of the nightmare that had bedevilled her sleep for days. She sat up, shivering, her heart thumping. For a few seconds she could not recognise her surroundings, then the outlines of the sparse furnishings of the room solidified in the faint moonlight coming through a gap in the curtains. This was her room in the house they had commandeered in Bihac, the city Tito’s Partisans had captured after a bitter battle a few weeks before Christmas – a battle in which she had played an important part. This was safety, an end to the long weeks on the march, sleeping on the hard ground, alert always to the sound of movement in the surrounding forest and the distant howling of wolves. So why could she not sleep in peace?”
― Holly Green, A Call to Home

“Don’t mistake softness for weakness. Only a strong man can be soft with a woman.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Hello Stranger

“I'm asking you to tell Lady Cassandra about my good qualities as well as the bad ones."
"What good qualities?" West inquired sharply.
Tom had to think for a moment. "How rich I am?”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“I’ll marry you,” Tom told her. “Any time. Any terms.”

West gently nudged Cassandra toward the door. “Go, darling, while I talk with the insane man.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“When they shook hands, it felt like a promise had been made. A commitment.

“Now,” Ethan said, “where do you keep the guns?”
Ravenel’s brows shot upward. “Ransom, if you don’t mind, I prefer easing into a new topic with a transitional phrase or two.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Hello Stranger

“There are all different kinds of smut,” Pandora said, warming to the subject. “Smut balls, loose smut, stinking smut—”
“Pandora,” West interrupted in an undertone, “for the love of mercy, stop saying that word in public.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil's Daughter

“Since Love is a greased pig wasn't a particularly dignified motto, she decided the Latin translation was more elegant: Amor est uncta porcus.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“I’ve a trunk full of books. The porters will despise me, but I'll be the most prepared Englishwoman ever to set foot on Egyptian sand.”
― K. Lyn Smith, Light of a Nile Moon

“But a man doesn’t change his character, dearest.” “I don’t expect him to change his character,” Hannah said. “My hope is that, given time, he’ll reveal it.”
― Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience

“She was no stranger to the game of flirtation. During her time in Paris, many men had attempted to woo her with sweet words and kisses. But this was different. Mr. Royce was no courtly French gentleman. His touch wasn’t sweet. It was incendiary.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin

“She’d been made small for so long, the words hadn’t existed to articulate the wild yearnings within her... She knew now what she wanted-- what she’d always wanted... The freedom to want, to choose, to be. To live a colorful, conspicuous, unconventional life.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“He wanted to be recognized for the things he could control, not for those things he couldn’t.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“He had the vague thought that riding a difficult mare for so many years had given her an unseen reservoir of power. Luminous as she appeared, she was no will-o’-the-wisp. She was formidable. Strong.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“Starlight, of course,” he said solemnly. “For you, it will always be starlight.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“i don't want sunbursts or marble halls. i just want you.”
― LM Montgomery

“I can’t think how I’m to behave,” she whispered as the other passengers began to appear.

“That’s easy enough,” he whispered back. “Just smile, Bea. And pretend you’re wildly in love with me.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Governess and the Rogue

“Her eyes reluctantly met his.
They were a delicate shade of China blue. Wide, round, and fringed with thick, ink-black lashes. Beautiful eyes, really. Ivo couldn’t recall when he’d seen the like of them.”
― Mimi Matthews, Appointment in Bath

“You’re like a mosquito trapped in my tent.”
― K. Lyn Smith, Light of a Nile Moon

“She was lovely, of course. But it wasn’t that which had beguiled him so thoroughly against his will -- against his self-interest and his reason. It was the softness of her. The tender gravity in her gaze, and the reticence in her manner.”
― Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience

“He didn’t think. He didn’t strategize. For once, he acted purely with his heart, doing what he most wanted to do. What he’d dreamed of doing from almost the first moment of their acquaintance.
He bent his head and he kissed her...”
― Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience

“All that life in him, the sensitivity in his art and his ability to see things in all their light and shadow, stems from his own vulnerability... Indeed, there are times when he still struggles mightily with his condition.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“The temptation was too great to resist. Heart thundering madly, Teddy closed the distance and pressed his lips to hers.
Her eyes fell shut as he captured her mouth. A soft murmur of assent throbbed in her throat.
The sound sent a wild rush of heat through his veins...”
― Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane

“You know, say you’ve fallen out of love with me. Or—even better—that you never loved me in the first place.”

Bea’s gaze slid from his. She resumed looking at the sky, her lips pressed in a frown. “I wonder,” she said quietly, “how many more lies I must tell before all this is over?”
― Mimi Matthews

“Jack had never proposed to a girl in his life. And he didn’t intend to start now, with a little sparrow of a starchy governess. No matter how fine her eyes.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Governess and the Rogue

“It's only dreamers who have cause to stare at the stars."
"You presume I'm not a dreamer?”
― Mimi Matthews, The Governess and the Rogue

“We. The single word didn’t appear lost on her. She wasn’t alone in this. For better or worse, they were in it together.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Marriage Method

“My love, she’d called him. He had immediately recognized the endearment for the wifely pantomime that it was. It hadn’t stopped his heart from pounding on a throb of longing so intense it had nearly stolen his breath.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Marriage Method