Elizabeth Hoyt Quotes

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Shhh, he murmured against her mouth. Don't talk. Don't think. Just feel.

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Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.

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Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause.

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Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.

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She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.

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But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.

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Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady, one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George's spine. Harry.

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He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, I may not have the right, Silence, me love, he drawled so soft she nearly didn't catch the words. But I would've listened to ye. I would've believed ye.

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I watched you for years, she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. I watched you and you never saw me.

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Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.

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This is my social face, he said lightly. Don't confuse it with the animal beneath.

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I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration. He stroked her hair soothingly. You will never be a millstone about my neck. Rather you're the sunshine that brightens my day. He swallowed. Don't you see? You brought me into the daylight. You've embraced parts of me that I was never able to let see light. Don't make me retreat again into the night. (Winter Makepeace)

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It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.

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He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose over her, powerful and male. He casually parted her legs with his knees and thrust into her again, hot and hard. She gasped at the swift invasion, the lovely feeling, and then his face was next to hers, his big palms cradling her cheeks. What I want, he drawled, is ye. Nothin' else.

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Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her.

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Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

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Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

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All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman—a lady—must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.

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There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

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There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

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I love you," she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real. "I love you, and I thought you were dead. I couldn't bear it. I thought I would die too." "I'd walk through fire for you," he rasped, his voice hoarse and broken. "I have walked through fire for you.

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Will ye come with me? he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. Yes, please.

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Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can't you say it, Hero?

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Good. He straddled her, caging her with his body. Were it up to me, all of London would know what we do here. -Griffin to Hero.

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You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

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