Meljean Brook Quotes

#1. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.

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#2. Perhaps drugging the woman he intended to fall in love with wasn't the accepted method of kindling a passionate romance, yet Archimedes considered it the most sensible way to proceed.

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#3. They gaped as if they'd never seen a ridiculously handsome bleeding man in a turquoise waistcoat fall through a rubbish hole and then save himself with a grappling hook before. What DID they do for fun in New Eden?

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#4. That was unbelievably presumptuous," she said in astonished wonder. "I should be furious. But it was so well done. I have shivers all over.

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#5. His slow smile didn't soften his hawkish features. You'll come to my bed. And you won't think it a waste of time.

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#6. When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

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#7. Use me," he said. "For as long as you like.

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#8. Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.

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#9. Even worse than not being noticed, he decided, was being noticed and found wanting.

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#10. I'll kiss you until we can't breathe. I'll strip you naked and taste every inch of you. Then I'll shag you until neither of us can see straight.

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#11. From the very first, I knew you'd be dangerous to me. I should have run."
"I'd have caught you.

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#12. She studied his clothes, his top hat. "And you've just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?"
"It's much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don't fall in line, you'll leave them to die.

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#13. He expelled a long breath, smiled slightly as if in memory. I heard them in their room. She said she was a bit tired, and he said that perhaps it was time to see what came next.

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#14. In the quarantine tower he'd done to her what he'd sworn never to do with the machine: justify the route he'd taken with the result he hoped to achieve.

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#15. A jagged stone existed where her heart had been.

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#16. And while we are living, we receive no punishment but what we put on each other or that we make for ourselves

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#17. But there exists not one man who never errs. We would be gods. And gods didn't apologize. Men did.

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#18. She'd been a silly girl who'd dreamed of love, and a stupid girl who'd declared love a fraud; but she'd never imagined that when she found it,it would be richer, more powerful than dreams, and the impossibility of keeping it more painful than the worst betrayal.

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#19. His mother had taught him exactly that: To do what must be done. But she had taught him to do it while having a heart. Not heartlessly.

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#20. But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a woman should be a basic part of any man's character, and lauding him for it would be like commending someone for having lungs to breathe with.

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#21. Her parents exchanged an odd glance. Her mother's lips curved. "Yes, I imagine that he possesses a rather large cannon," she said, spearing her
sausage with a fork.

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#22. Families aren't always blood. You make your own.

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#23. Every man had a choice: feed that which makes you happy, or feed that which makes you rage.

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#24. People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves.

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#25. Yes. My mother, for one. As a child I loved her, despite knowing so little about her. But now, knowing everything she has done, how stubborn she can be, how blind, how strong, how clever ... knowing her as a woman, I love her so much more.

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#26. His dark gaze searched her face. "Aren't you curious, inspector? A kiss - and only a kiss."
Only a kiss ... from someone who wanted her. Longing slipped through her, tugging at hopes best kept buried. Yes, Mina wanted to know. But she couldn't afford it.
"No," she said.
He smiled. "Liar.

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#27. Hot, hard and so thick that her fingertips didn't meet when she closed her hand around him.

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#28. I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes.

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#29. Yes. I remember.
His voice had deepened. I remember. Mina did, too, every conversation they'd had over breakfast, and it made her heart ache. Such a strange thing ... She suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

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#30. He focused on the inspector, instead, though she didn't want him watching her. But Rhys liked the way she looked, particularly when her expression suggested that she'd prefer to have a gun aimed at his head rather than sit across from him in a private railcar.

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#31. Goddammit. Can't I save you just once?

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#32. Breathe, Newberry. If you faint in the Blacksmith's laboratory, only the stars above know what might be grafted to your body when you wake up.

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#33. A blacksmith can go anywhere. A detective inspector only goes where the dead bodies are."
"But there aren't any dead people here today."
Mina glanced over her shoulder at the chest Newberry carried. "That's why I brought my own.

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#34. No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close.

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#35. She did like him ... sometimes. When he was not a complete knacker.

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#36. Confounding woman. He wanted to drag her close and kiss her senseless.

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#37. I've only imagined seeing you again. That you'd come to my home. That I'd run into you on the street. That I'd look up, and you'd be there, and you'd be well ... and I'd tell you that I love you.

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#38. My sister once warned me that a man who blushed so easily was probably a Man With Appetites.

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#39. If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man.

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#40. If you even suggest to my crew that you've threatened your way aboard my lady, I'll rip out your spine."
"That's unbearably arousing.

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#41. When you come home to me, I will always be here waiting for you.

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#42. Men made life far too difficult when they insisted on neatly categorizing their emotions. When emotions became complicated, they brooded and struggled so mightily in an attempt to simplify them again - when, given time, everything would sort itself out and slide into its place.

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#43. Stories were so easy to control. Lady Lynx escaped because Zenobia created an escapable situation, and if anything unexpected happened to her characters, Zenobia had a clever plan to get them out of their new fix.

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#44. Freedom is having a choice to make, to be who we want to be.

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#45. She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in
Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the sailors. - pag. 191

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#46. No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts.

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#47. The first opportunity he got, Rhys was going to shag her blind.

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#48. Your purse is bulging, Mr. Fox. Tuck it away before you board.

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#49. Sunset was only thirty minutes gone when some pissant vampire waylaid Deacon on his way to Theriault's. One of those younger shits who wrote poetry to Mother Darkness and thought becoming a vampire would make him sparkle.

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#50. The captain shook her head - not in disagreement, but wonder. She glanced at Ariq. We'll do this all for free if you let us see inside that thing.

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#51. But disbelief wasn't enough to wound someone. Disbelief only hurt when someone wanted to believe.

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#52. If ever you need it, I will level mountains to give you a desk. Even if an army is at our door, I'll hold them off until your ink runs dry.

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#53. And even though she could remember most of the sentences and every plot point, the story would never be what it had been. She would never again be who she'd been.

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#54. His gaze settled on her mouth. "Have you been kissed before, inspector?"
"Why?" If he wanted virgin lips, she'd claim to have serviced an army.
"If it's your first, I'll do it differently."
"You won't do it at all."
"Yes, I will.

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#55. They were fed flaky pastries filled with beef and spices, a peppery stew over couscous, breads stuffed with honey and almonds.

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#56. Do my questions annoy you?"
He glanced at her, his surprise evident. "No. I'm far too vain to object; I am my favorite topic.

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#57. I think the difference is not in the man, but how many stand behind him. I think that change will truly come when their combined fists are bigger than a single mighty one.

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#58. Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles.

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#59. You'll see. I have a collection of fine waistcoats and a handsome face. He stepped back to let her take in the full effect of both and her smile spread to the edge of a laugh.

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#60. Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory.

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#61. Every word I say. Everything I do. You may take it as encouragement,

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#62. You said that if I ever lost a finger, I'd cry like a baby. But I didn't. I cried like a man.

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#63. He couldn't prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it.

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