18 Quotes by Celeste Bradley

How strange knowledge was. Once something was known, it could not be unknown, no matter how one might wish.

Everything would work out and she wouldn’t have to tell Dane that the box full of ancient ivory penises was roaming freely about Kirkall Hall.

Husbands came and husbands went, but dreadful hair lasted forever.

Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?” Atalanta Worthington.

We ought to talk. Had four words ever put more fear into the heart of men around the world? He’d not heard them before himself, but ancient gender memory recognized them well. He was in for it now.

He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses – he’d read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn’t have to. He could turn about this moment and ride away. Yet that would mean leaving her forever.

Four spies, a monosyllabic earl, an annoying heiress, an obnoxious young sot, two very pleasing ladies – although Olivia had scarcely spoken this evening – and the mother from hell.

I read once that despair... is when you are no longer able to sustain, even for the briefest moment, the notion that all will be well in the end.

For a giddy moment Olivia wondered how that young man’s pay was entered into the palace housekeeping ledger. His Highness’s First Orderly of the Stool? Royal Stepping-stoolie?