Quotes About Westcliff

#1. What a ferocious creature you are," St. Vincent said, laughing. "I pity Westcliff if he crosses you again. In fact, I think I should warn him ...

Lisa Kleypas

#2. Go to hell," Sebastian muttered. "No doubt that was what you came to tell me tonight. If so, you're about a month too late."
"That was my intention," Westcliff admitted. "Now, however, I've decided to stay and have a snifter of brandy while you tell me what in God's name you're doing.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Thomas Bowman's toupee, alas, was never found. He was somewhat mollified by the gift of a very fine hat from Westcliff on Christmas day.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. This isn't the medieval era, my lord. I'll be damned if I need to put on a dog-and-pony show with a peer as part of a business deal."
"Speaking as the other half of the dog-and-pony show," Westcliff said sardonically, "I'm not fond of the idea either.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained by logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the hinges that held them together.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. Yes, I think it's helping. Ugh. You had better pray for a boy, Westcliff, because this is your only chance at an heir. I'm never going through this again - " "Open your mouth," he said, and fed her more flavored ice.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Westcliff looks for any excuse to demonstrate his superiority, doesn't he?" "Was that what he was doing? It looked rather like he was trying to find an excuse to put his arms around you.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. Thank you for saving him," Evie heard herself say to Westcliff, still staring at her husband.
The earl slid her a sideways glance. "You saved him, Evie on the night you offered to marry him. Which is evidence, I suppose, that moments of lunacy can occasionally lead to positive results. [ ... ]

Lisa Kleypas

#9. Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that."
Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Albert Einstein

#11. There are young women who have goals other than finding a husband.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. She twisted her body to the curtained windows, listening to the night. "Where are you, poor dead thing? Are you right outside?" The voice of the sea drifted on a low wind, like the noise a wolf might make in its sleep.

Robert Dunbar

#13. It's so hard not to enjoy this because how can you put something so golden, a girl who can barely open her eyes or her mouth - how can you put something like that in front of them and expect them to be better people?

Courtney Summers

#14. My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

Lizzo

#15. A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

Romain Rolland

#16. The wind fluttering the pennants atop the outer keep and teasing Berenice's hair carried the loamy smell of damp earth, the fresh scent of the river, and, even now, a ghostly chemical astringency. The miasma wafted from the battlefield.

Ian Tregillis

#17. Love as a flower loves the morning sun.
Love with kindness, expect no return.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

Randy Weber

#19. My lord," she whispered, "have you gone mad?"
"Yes. Yes.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. I've got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty - everything I don't like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

E.B. White

#21. I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

Enya

#22. Good God-is there nothing you won't stoop to?"
"If there is," Lillian replied smartly, "I haven't discovered it yet.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Martha Beck

#24. Language is an art, like brewing or baking ... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Charles Darwin

#25. Making a shallow bow, Marcus smiled at Daisy, for whom he thought he could easily develop a brotherly affection. The slightness of her form and her sweetly exuberant spirit reminded him of Livia in her younger years.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

Debi Mazar

#27. Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Aeschylus