390 Quotes by Tessa Dare

I am the girl who made up a Scottish lover, wrote him scores of letters, and kept up an elaborate ruse for years. Does it really surprise you that I’m odd?

Sometimes he wondered if women were all lawyers, with an extensive code of Romantic Law that they kept stubbornly hidden from men.

I named all the nothings after you. Because, my darling Nora... no matter where I traveled, you were always what was missing.

Surely it can’t be,” he said, his hand stealing over her thigh, “that this intrepid explorer of underwater caverns hasn’t explored her own little cove?

For this moment, there was no before and no after. There was only now, and now was everything.

The creatures most difficult to reach make the most loving companions in the end.

Where did you come from?” she whispered, mostly to herself. “What are you wanting here?” One hand shot out, catching her by the hair. Violet gasped at the sharp yank on a thousand nerve endings. His eyes flew open, clear and intense. She read his answer in them. You. I’m wanting you.

I’m not interrogating him. I’m merely asking him questions.

As deaths go, it would have been a kind one. There were worse ways to meet one’s demise than being buried alive in literature.