Top 100 Loretta Chase Quotes

#1. She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart.
But now she couldn't speak, because it was too much, whatever it was.

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#2. Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English."
"But Italian is so moving," Dain said.
"To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." I've wanted you from the first moment I saw you.
"Mi tormenti ancora." You've tormented me ever since.

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#3. I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..

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#4. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end.

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#5. You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

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#6. Shall we proceed, and ought I do so with my knife drawn?"
"You'd better keep it where it is for the moment," he said. "Otherwise you might stab me to death accidentally." .
"If I stab you to death," she said, "it will not be accidental.

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#7. Women do not lie, my lord Dain," came a faintly accented voice from the door. "It merely seems so because they exist in another reality.

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#8. Bung upwards, she means, Your Grace, a tart called out.

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#9. Miss, I'm sure lots of women think of running away when men disappoint us. But if all of us was to actually do that, there wouldn't be a woman left in London.

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#10. Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the

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#11. It was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.

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#12. Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

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#13. Then came her voice in his ear: "I give myself to thee. I give myself to thee. I give myself to thee."
And at last she sank onto him, and he wrapped his arms about her and savoured the delicious peace. The stray, funny thought came: we're married, and he laughed out loud.

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#14. I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic females dressed in the latest stare of fashion telling them they are proud, vain, and licentious.

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#15. Don't you remember telling me that you're the brain and I'm the brawn? Naturally I expect you to do all the talking. And naturally I shall knockheads and toss people out of windows as required. Or did I misunderstand? Did you want me to think, too?

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#16. Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

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#17. Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

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#18. That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.

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#19. Charm of the most insidious kind: humorous, self-deprecating, and disarmingly frank and confiding.

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#20. Miss you, he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.

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#21. Do you remember little Zoe Octavia Lexham?' he said.
His aunt cast her pale blue gaze in the direction of the great chandelier, as though that was where she kept her memory. 'Zoe Octavia,' she said.

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#22. Lydia: What the devil do you mean by creeping up on me? You're suppose to be in a brothel.
Vere: I lied. I can't believe you fell for the old going-to-a-brothel ruse. You didn't even look out the window to make sure I'd gone away.

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#23. Just like a damned man, he thought exasperatedly. She got what she wanted, then curled up and went to sleep.
That was what he was supposed to do, blast and confound her bloody impudence.

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#24. His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.

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#25. Hell, what was one more scandal?

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#26. Go away," he said. "Do you know you've almost no clothes on?"
"Never mind. I need - "
"Never mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can 'never mind.' A nearly naked woman isn't one of them.

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#27. Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

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#28. I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

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#29. Clara will break him to bridle," Longmore said. "And if she can't cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he'll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she'll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.

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#30. I have always believed that anyone who must violate the law to achieve his purposes must lack either intelligence or imagination, probably both.

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#31. By gad, is that you, Ainswood? I haven't seen you in a dog's age. How's the gout? Still troubling you?

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#32. If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one?

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#33. Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?"
"There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish.

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#34. She swallowed it. So bitter.
"Vile," she said. "Vile."
"I know, but it helps. Trust me. I know."
"Trust you," she said. "Hah."
"Clearly you are not dying."
"No. Devil won't take me."
The low chuckle again. "Then we're all safe.

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#35. THE Right Honorable Edward Junius Carsington, Earl of Hargate, had five sons, which was three more than he needed.

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#36. Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

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#37. Beaumont wanted Esmond very badly. Esmond wanted Beaumont's wife. And she didn't want anybody.

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#38. No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm."
"You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences.

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#39. Shockingly tactless," Lady Warford said. "Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages

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#40. An adult should not be forced into marriage as a child is forced to eat his peas. Peas are only part of a meal. Marriage is a life's work.

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#41. I should like to see you try.

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#42. Viscerally, what Genevieve felt, and it wasn't at all amusing.

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#43. No good would come of trying to make something of a man with a brain like machinery.

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#44. Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

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#45. They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

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#46. What would you have done?" Esme demanded. "Screamed for help, of course. But it would never occur to you to call for help. You don't just think you're a warrior. You think you're a whole army.

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#47. There is no animal more invincible than a woman,

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#48. I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well."
"Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather.

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#49. Coward he said softly. She stopped and turned and marched back to him. She dropped her reticule, grasped his neckcloth, cupped his face, dragged his mouth to hers, and kissed him.

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#50. Men are the inferior sex. Adam was made first, and the first effort is always the simpler and cruder one, non? With the second, one refines.

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#51. I want you," she said.
"I told you so," he said.

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#52. Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.

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#53. She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.

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#54. He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

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#55. Jessica: "You great drunken jackass!"
Dain: "I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

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#56. Men don't know what they want. Women must show them.

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#57. A man ought to look up to a woman, literally or figuratively, because that is the proper mode of worship, and worship is the very least he can do.

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#58. Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.

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#59. He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

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#60. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

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#61. I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

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#62. Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

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#63. She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.

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#64. The bourgeoisie is so tediously self-righteous.

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#65. I love you madly," she said. "I shall make you happy if I have to kill somebody to do it. But that ought not to be necessary.

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#66. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.

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#67. rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

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#68. Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered.
Then he recalled who it was who had a child.
A child, Noirot had a child!

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#69. You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

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#70. In all the excitement, I seem to have put my foot under yours," he said. "I do beg your pardon.

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#71. And, while Jessica had faith enough in Providence, she preferred to seek help from more accessible sources. Her assistant was Phelps, the coachman.

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#72. Due to not getting pumped regular, females take the oddest fancies, such as imagining they can think.

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#73. That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood," she said. "You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself."
"That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood," he said. "You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.

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#74. Dain could not decide what to do with Lady Wallingdon's invitation.
A part of his mind recommended he burn it.
Another part suggested he urinate on it.
Another advised him to shove it down Her Ladyship's throat.

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#75. Humor will relieve an awkward moment.

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#76. We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

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#77. If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat," he said. "Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.

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#78. I'm no good at being good.

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#79. Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

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#80. HOrrible. The most horrible sound on earth. The sound of death and torture and the agonies of a burning hell," Lisle said. "Damn them. It's bagpipes.

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#81. They believe Miles can read it," she said. "Good grief. They must be completely illiterate
or desperately gullible
or
"
"French," said Mr Carsington.

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#82. I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.

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#83. I must be besotted," he said evenly. "I have the imbecilic idea that you're the prettiest girl I've ever seen. Except for your coiffure," he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. "That is ghastly."
She scowled. "Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.

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#84. Holding a large object aloft, she went after him, and the fellow ran. Then something struck the back of Rupert's head. The world went black with flashing lights. The ground opened up under his feet, and down he went.

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#85. I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.

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#86. I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in."
Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. "This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark."
"Then use a harpoon.

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#87. But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman
can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language?

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#88. The beasts tossed their heads and answered with evil horsey laughter.

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#89. Everybody knew gentlemen could be obtuse, especially when it came to matters of the heart. Everybody knew, as well, that gentlemen needed to believe they were in charge. Therefore, ladies had to learn ways of communicating the obvious without being obvious about it.

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#90. And I think I am about to mistake you for a volume of Ptolemy." He drew her face closer to his. "Make that Ovid," he said. His lips brushed lightly against hers. "Make that Ars Amatoria.

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#91. Looking at a man as though he was something the horse left behind isn't the way to elicit confidences.

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#92. He'd forget all that, just as he would forget this night.
The memories would linger for a time, but they'd grow dull. The ache he felt now, the frustation and anger and sorrow - all those would fade too.
She'd given him a night to remember, but of course he'd forget.

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#93. In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

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#94. He was a man, an attractive man if one overlooked the obnoxiousness. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end. Naturally

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#95. Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

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#96. I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it."
"Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me.

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#97. The Vizier is a genius, truly, if he can keep peace among three hundred women. I can't do so with only one.

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#98. Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

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#99. I know why you want to wear the plum," Marcelline said. "It's ravishing. It'll make Longmore swoon."
"It might make him do some things," Sophy said. "But swooning isn't one of them. He's the sort of man who tells a girl he l-loves her - and then l-laughs. As though
it's a j-joke.

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#100. Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.

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