390 Quotes by Tessa Dare

This would have been the perfect time to continue with his ravishment scheme. He could lay siege to her virginal clothing. Ruthlessly dismantle her inhibitions. Steal an hour or two of fleeting pleasure before proving beyond a shadow of doubt: Romance is an exercise in willful delusion and nothing—nothing—ends happily. At least, not in this castle, and not with a man like him.There was only one wrinkle in that scheme.He liked her too much to go through with it.

This was the true fairy-tale ending. He’d given her the ‘happily’ part the day they’d agreed to marry. This room was the ‘ever after.’And the best part of all?So many years stood between them and ‘The End’.

His first glimpse of Izzy Goodnight was to see her bathed in gold. The sunlight showed him, in blazing relief, a slender, gracefully curved silhouette and a corona of wild, loose hair that seemed to be afire.Holy God.

You saw him as disapproving of you. I thought him disapproving of me. Funny, isn't it?"Not only funny, but a strange relief. Why hadn't she seen it? Rhys felt like an impostor here, too. [...]Tilting her head to the twilight sky, she mused, "Do you know what I think? I have a feeling that dour look on Lord Corning's face had nothing to do with either of us. Perhaps he'd just tasted something unpleasant.

A terrible sense of affinity swamped her. For all her life, making the acquaintance of another book lover had felt like…well, rather like meeting with someone from her own country while traveling overseas.

If you'll only let me hold you, I won't let you go.

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

What you don’t realize is that the world does not need more perfection. It needs more compassion and empathy.

It’s true. Every time you wake up, you let fly the most marvelous string of curses. It’s never the same twice, do you know that? It’s so intriguing. You’re like a rooster that crows blasphemy.” “Oh, there’s a cock crowing, all right,” he muttered.