152 Quotes by Eloisa James

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    It was also bitterly true that a person who doesn’t want you is twice as desirable.

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    Do you have a pet?'Eugenia shook her head. 'I don't know very much about animals.''There's nothing much to know. You feed them; they love you.

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    He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their large noses, and their ungainly limbs.

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    A pearl button skipped and hopped across the floor, creating a counterpoint to the splatters of rain hitting the windows.

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    I shouldn't think I'll have the slightest problem playing a man," she said. "I shall merely remember to rearrange my breeches in front at least once an hour, thereby drawing attention to the padding I carefully placed there in the morning, and I'll blend in perfectly.

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    everyone always says that Lord Findleshanks is really a woman. Did you ever look at him closely? He does look like a woman.''He has a beard,' Harriet pointed out.'So did my grandmother.

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    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.

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    Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?''Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful.

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