154 Quotes by Sherry Thomas

...So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know.I have never known such happiness, shot through with such misery. Only four days have passed, they tell me. But that is not true. It has been decades since I sawyou last.You will find me a stooped old man when we meet again. Perhaps I might even need a pair of spectacles to recognize your veil.But I remain always,Your servant,C.One of Christian's onesided letters to the Baroness

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

As a youth, I listened to the rain from the bowers of pleasure houses,Red silk drapes translucent in the glow of candlelight.In my prime, I listened to the rain as a traveler,The sky low, the river broad, the calls of the wild geese harsh and cold.Now, grey at the temples, I listen to the rain beneath the eaves of an abandoned cloister.Has mine been a futile life?I have no answers, only the sound of raindrops upon worn stone steps,And long hours yet to pass before the light of dawn.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.