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“Jessica, you are a pain in the arse, do you know that?” He scowled at her. “If I were not so immensely fond of you, I should throw you out the window.”
She wrapped her arms about his waist and laid her head against his chest. “Not merely ‘fond,’ but ‘immensely fond.’ Oh, Dain, I do believe I shall swoon.”

“For another full minute he gazed, slack-jawed, into her beautiful tranquil, slumbering face. Just like a damned man, he thought exasperatedly. She got what she wanted, then curled up and went to sleep.”

“and buried his grieving heart, as he always did, under laughter.”
I think this reread is really for me emphasizing what a little romantic and emotional man Dain is.

“Women have been given a harsh lot in this life,” Father MacKechnie continued. “Yet they survive and, in fact, find ways to flourish in such a restrictive setting. They certainly have to be more clever than men, lass, to get their voices heard.”

“You’re an unusual woman.” “I try not to be. It is difficult, though, when you consider my past.” “I give you a compliment when I tell you I think you’re unusual,” Gilard returned, smiling over the worry he’d caught in her voice. Did she think unusual meant a flaw of some sort, he wondered.

This book talks about how the highlanders don’t wear anything under their plaid which is something I’ve thought a lot about. Riding a horse bare ass naked sounds horrible.

I needed a reset. I feel like each book I read was crazier than the last these past few months. So I’m coming back to my roots to remember not everyone is in the mafia or crazy in general.

This book was so freaking good. I put it off despite what Reddit said because it seemed a little bit too much and there were a lot of bad reviews but damn can Penelope write. Someone said should “should be cringey but is incredible” and I couldn’t agree more.

If you took a shot every time they said “mate”, you’d be dead.

I’d like to take a poll to see what people do when they are reading in public and a sex scene happens. What’s the protocol here.

“Aunt Mary is preparing a rather nice dinner for this Sunday, and she’ll complain horribly if the family has to attend your funeral instead.” “I’ll save the world for the sake of Aunt Mary’s roast lamb.”

“In about an hour or so they’ll transform back into people, with no lingering harm other than an inclination toward vegetarianism.” “They’re Texans!” “Oh dear,” Elodie repeated, wincing.

I love how she calls Xanax her calming pills.

“You’re overwrought,” she said. “I should have realized. We’ve both been under a strain. And it’s harder on you because you are so sensitive and emotional.”

He had said that someone had to marry her because she was a public menace, and he supposed he was the only one big and mean enough to manage her.

Watched some Japanese BL took a reset now I’m ready to get traumatized again.

It’s like Rina forgets the female lead is British so she randomly adds the word “Blimey”. I can say the word blimey ! It doesn’t make you English !

Never in my life would I have thought I’d find this quote in a dark mafia academy novel

“And mangas. Slice of life. Shounen, and… I grab one and my brows lift. Boys’ love. Well, well. Would you look at that?”

And now we are on to the mafia romance. But will probably go back to highlanders too. My two weaknesses to finish out my reading goal.

“But I’m in the middle of a sour mood, Johanna. I’m not fit for company today. Go away and leave me to my pout.”

Connor seems much more of on ass in the audiobook. But is fine when I read it so I think I’d like the book less if I only listened to it.

He’d had portraits of his horses done, too. A man must commemorate his loved ones, after all.

“Yes. The point is, if you could just overlook this one small issue of my inability to form emotional attachments to other human beings, we’d be very happy together.”

“No, but according to a book I once read, Phenomena Produced By Diseases Of The Nervous System, it’s very likely that I have hyperesthesia or periodic mania, or both.” Pandora paused with a frown. “Why are you smiling? It’s not nice to laugh at other people’s diseases.”

“What if my horse isn’t a good sailor?”
Can’t relate.

If I can actually get through a book this month I’ll be shocked. But I guess I’ll keep starting new ones everyday.

“Amelia, I can’t discuss this now. Or I’ll start weeping and throw myself to the floor.” “Heavens, don’t do that. Someone might trip over you.”

“Babies don’t drink gin.” Vielliers said, pretty sure he was right about that.
I forgot how chaotic historic romance books can get. I love it.

“John lashed out, berating the baron for his rudeness, reminding him that when he was in the room , it was the law of England that he, and only he, be the center of attention.”
-King John the attention whore

I have two security blankets to comfort me my actual baby blanket I’ve had since birth and this book.