Jayne Fresina Quotes

#1. Her mother, of course, would remind her that it was a woman's duty to marry and bear children. It was her only purpose in life. But then her mother had no appreciation for novels.

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#2. Darius squared his shoulders, wishing he had something other than his handkerchief to keep his hands occupied while she stood this close, looking so angry and at the same time as wildly beautiful, dangerous, and breathtaking as a thunderstorm at sea. A face to sink a thousand ships...

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#3. [They] talked mostly of their memories, for the past was all they had - the present being such a changable, odd thing, and the future too far away.

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#4. Women exist to put right all the wrongs men do and to keep them from making a complete pig's ear of the world.

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#5. He knew then he was in danger. Very real danger. No woman had ever given him a gift or spoken to him as she did. Or tied him in these breathless knots. Or left him so aroused just by standing close and letting him hold her hand.

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#6. He'd never seen a more miserable gown. The color hovered in some purgatory between raincloud and ditchwater and it looked as if the pieces of it were cut to a pattern of indifference, then stitched with resentment.

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#7. A gentleman's brain must be treated gently and never overburdened. It gets so little exercise. We don't want it strained.

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#8. What makes you think you can stop me?"
"I'm a lady, and you're a gentleman."
He smirked. "Are you sure about that?"
"About which?"
"Either.

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#9. He was back. Of course he was, she thought scornfully. He'd returned after all that time, just when she looked her very worst and had a pimple.

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#10. It was most troubling to find there existed a pair of lips he would allow to insult him and yet still want to kiss immediately afterward.

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#11. The worst mistake I ever made has become the best thing I ever did.

- Darius Wainwright

Jayne Fresina