Iliada

“Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time.”
― Tessa Dare, A Week to be Wicked

“And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be as tense as a crossbow drawn back. The reader should want it as badly as the hero and heroine, and feel as satisfied and transported and transformed as the hero and heroine in the wake of it. There are different ways to use kisses in a romance, but that first kiss is so meaningful, a pinnacle, and can be more intimate than sex.”
― Julie Anne Long

“I took a fall,” he confirmed evenly. After a hesitation doubtless only Phoebe noticed.
And Phoebe didn’t know whether it was the sort of fall Lucifer took, or the sort poets wrote about when love struck, or even if it was an innuendo at all, because she suspected everything was destined to sound like an innuendo from now on.”
― Julie Anne Long, How the Marquess Was Won

“Use it all you want. Marry him. He’ll never really be yours, and you’ll never know it.
Or maybe you will.”
― Julie Anne Long, How the Marquess Was Won