K Ferguson

“Madam, I've never met another woman who is as exasperating as you are!”
― Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, So Worthy My Love

“Please let me go now," she said in a soft voice. "I can be of no further use to you."

"Suppose I want to keep you as my own?"

She pushed his hand away and sat up. "I am serious, Raven."

"Perhaps I am too.”
― Constance O'Banyon, Velvet Chains

“It was insane to let a creature so perfectly beautiful and artlessly spirited and vulnerable as his wife venture out into a world that could crush her with casual unconcern, and he had no choice but to allow it. But he had no illusions about ever being comfortable with it. For the rest of his life, he would feel a stab of dread every time she walked out the door, leaving him there with his heart wide open.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“He was charmed out of all reason as he watched her, this sandy, disheveled, storytelling mermaid, who seemed already to belong to him and yet wanted nothing to do with him. His heart worked in strange rhythms, as if it were struggling to adjust to a brand new metronome. What was happening to him?”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring