“What is it?" Maud said. 'Nothing' was on Violet's tongue, but Maud had requested truth from her, tonight. So Violet reached for Maud's hand, lifted the inner wrist to her mouth, and kissed it. It wasn't and answer. It was truth, withheld. Maud smiled, and in her smile was the fact that she'd noticed and let it go.” RomanceTrustQueerWlwHand Kiss Book:A Restless Truth Source: A Restless Truth
“Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…” He grimaced. “She was a little like you.” “Really?” “I would have followed her anywhere,” he said. “Into any battle.” GriefSiblings Book:A Restless Truth Source: A Restless Truth
“And maybe Violet would again be easy to abandon, and maybe she'd end up with yet more rings on her hand to remind her of it. [Maud] absently touched her breastbone, as if aware of the locket's absence. Better thumb rings, surely, than jewelry worn as a reminder that everyday you ached and loved and settled for less than what you wanted.” RomanceLongingYearningQueerWlw Book:A Restless Truth Source: A Restless Truth
“And maybe Violet would again be easy to abandon, and maybe she'd end up with yet more rings on her hand to remind her of it. [Maude] absently touched her breastbone, as if aware of the locket's absence. Better thumb rings, surely, than jewelry worn as a reminder that everyday you ached and loved and settled for less than what you wanted.” RomanceLongingYearningQueer Book:A Restless Truth Source: A Restless Truth
“Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people.” HumourGrumpy Old Man Book:A Power Unbound Source: A Power Unbound
“The only other woman was Trudie Davenport, the sharp-faced brunette with a da Vinci nose and an actress' high laugh, who even on ten seconds' acquaintance gave off the air of a marble set loose in a bowl - always trying to return herself to the centre of things.” HumourDescription Book:A Marvellous Light Source: A Marvellous Light
“Violet might wear her sparkling recklessness well, but beneath it she was careful, careful, careful. Maud was not; but she would learn to be. She would choose to be, as she chose every day to be generous and kind and all the other things that defied the coiled snake of her inherited nature.” Nature Vs NurtureChoosing Yourself Book:A Restless Truth Source: A Restless Truth
“What is it?" Maud said. 'Nothing' was on Violet's tongue, but Maud had requested truth from her, tonight. So Violet reached for Maud's hand, lifted the inner wrist to her mouth, and kissed it. It wasn't an answer. It was truth, withheld. Maud smiled, and in her smile was the fact that she'd noticed and let it go.” RomanceQueerWlwHand Kiss Book:A Restless Truth Source: A Restless Truth
“I thought I had simple tastes. I don’t care about pearls or silver. I don’t need silk. I can live without cherries and bottles of Diamond Blend.’ Luca pressed up, incoherently wanting, and Matti obliged him with another bruising kiss. ‘But you,’ Matti breathed. ‘You are the most exquisite thing in this city, and I want you, and I’m going to have you.” Love QuotesRomance Book QuotesLgbtq Book:Swordcrossed Source: Swordcrossed
“I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anyway.” LoveRomanceLove QuotesRomance Book Quotes Book:A Power Unbound Source: A Power Unbound
“Alan had known Lord Hawthorn would be here. He’d prepared himself, he thought. He’d been wrong. He’d forgotten the speed with which this hatred rose simmering within him. He’d forgotten that the edges of it crossed boundaries where it stopped feeling like hatred and became something wilder and more dangerous.” Hate To Love Romance Book:A Power Unbound Source: A Power Unbound
“Jack could hold a silence with the best of them. And Alanzo Rossi, Alan Ross, was in Jack’s five-day experience of him a pitch-dark room scattered with mousetraps.” Hate To Love Romance Book:A Power Unbound Source: A Power Unbound