Teresa

“A lady must attend her own engagement ball."
Penny sat up straight. "Gabriel Duke. I know you did not just propose to me in the mews, without so much as going down on one knee, while my hair is a bird's nest and we both smell like goat."
"I didn't propose to you." He swung his arms into his coat. Before disappearing, he gave her a slight, mischievous grin and a single syllable that had her heart cartwheeling in her chest.
"Yet.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager

“My father looks around, and his brow wrinkles. “Where are your bookcases?” he says in a completely bewildered voice.
I shrug. “Misha doesn’t have any. He hates them and likes plain walls and minimal fuss.” We exchange looks that agree on the incomprehensible nature of that.
“Why?” my dad asks in a scandalised tone of voice, suggesting that I’ve just said that Misha prefers to boil small children.
I nod. “Thank you. It’s nice to have my opinion reinforced.” 
“It’s just not natural,” my dad mutters.
Aidan chuckles. “Not everyone wants bookcases holding up their walls,” he says cheerfully.
My dad shakes his head. “You should watch your foul mouth,” he advises.”
― Lily Morton, Charlie Sunshine

“I was born this way and I'm going to die this way, so teach me to work around it.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Oh, Penny. He must truly love you,” Emma said. “Ash and Chase ate the sham. Gabriel made more.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager