Eloisa James quotes

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.
-- Eloisa James

#Christmas #Addiction #Glitter

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.
-- Eloisa James

#Dresses #Gowns #Sometimes

Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.
-- Eloisa James

#Chance #Tomorrow #Kind

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.
-- Eloisa James

#Dark #Sight #Hands

I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.
-- Eloisa James

#Daughter #Children #Squirrels

Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
-- Eloisa James

#Sorry #Son #Names

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
-- Eloisa James

#Giving Up #Decision #Want

They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.
-- Eloisa James

#Mother #Eye #Decision

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.
-- Eloisa James

#Advice #Mind #Answers

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.
-- Eloisa James

#More Time

If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.
-- Eloisa James

#Sleep #Doors #Waiting

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?
-- Eloisa James

#Beautiful #Sheep #Hair

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.
-- Eloisa James

#Love You #Voice #Said

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.
-- Eloisa James

#Giving #Goes On #Realizing

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.
-- Eloisa James

#Girl #Mother #Feet

Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.
-- Eloisa James

#School #Together #Wish

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.
-- Eloisa James

#Thinking #Voice #Shining

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
-- Eloisa James

#Doors #Forever #Easy

You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.
-- Eloisa James

#Daisies #One For Me

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
-- Eloisa James

#Dog #Cat #Animal

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
-- Eloisa James

#Memorable #Mind #Devil

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.
-- Eloisa James

#Silence #Commodity #Conclusion

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
-- Eloisa James

#Phones #Vivid

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.
-- Eloisa James

#Men #Flames #And Love

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
-- Eloisa James

#Lust #Persons

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.
-- Eloisa James

#Thinking #Miracle #Gone

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
-- Eloisa James

#Games #Making Love #World

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.
-- Eloisa James

#Eye #Men #Swans

He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.
-- Eloisa James

#Grows #Wanted

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together
-- Eloisa James

#Mother #Years #Together

I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.
-- Eloisa James

#Morning #Believe #Names

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
-- Eloisa James

#Velvet #Peers #Towels

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.
-- Eloisa James

#Brain #Males #Sometimes

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.
-- Eloisa James

#Morning #Kissing #Men

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.
-- Eloisa James

#Funeral #Come Back To Me #Please

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want
-- Eloisa James

#Giving #Choices #Doe

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.
-- Eloisa James

#Axes #Live In The Moment #World

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.
-- Eloisa James

#Use #Should

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.
-- Eloisa James

#Synonym #Discretion

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
-- Eloisa James

#Book #Reading #Desperate

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.
-- Eloisa James

#Gingerbread #Almighty #Ruined