92 Quotes About Regency

Lucas,” she started again. “You may release me now.” “And if I refuse?” “Then we shall be found in short order in a position most scandalous by my servants.” “And we do not want that to happen?” This time, it was a question, not a statement. Pippa wanted nothing less than to be released. “Surely, the wisest decision would be that.” “Are you a wise woman, Pippa?” he asked, his breath fanning her face. “Because, I assure you, at this very moment, I do not feel like a wise man.

Yes, sometimes we must lose something...someone...before we realize its worth.

He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.

The schoolroom . . . Olivia had always adored its confines and endless horizons. The melodious purr of the teacher's voice rising up and down her lessons like a musical score. And the sight of book spines--black, blue, green--lined up side by side like London townhouses. Each leather rectangle a gift waiting to be opened and explored and savored.

Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.

Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins." "I will kill twenty!" Lydia declared."I will kill thirty!" Kitty countered.Mary paused for a moment of sober calculation."I will kill thirty-two." she said."I will kill as long as I must," said Jane."And I will kill as long as I can," said Elizabeth

For all the largesse of my mind’s colony where a vividly enflamed man would take off each of the precious stones and melt away the cast, his success ultimately lay in being nice to me, being nice to himself irrespective of the behavior of each; of being proud of me and of himself irrespective of worldly success; holding me in regard with an almost primitive sense of courage, irrespective of the purity of my body or spirit.

He realized it was the first of January, the day many people began the new year with a thorough cleaning. A time for "Out with the old, in with the new."Could Richard do the same to his heart, his ways? He hoped so, God in heaven, give me strength. Help me become a better man.

I will grab your other arm, you will close your eyes, and up you will come. Back on terra firma.""This is terra firma. " Juliana pointed with her nose to the rugged cliff wall."Yes, but I doubt very much that you want to stay there.""I like the idea of dangling in the air so much less.