Eloisa James Quotes - Page 2

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.