I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

Eloisa James

Categorized in : Children Daughter Squirrels

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

Eloisa James

rewards writing joy

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

Eloisa James

cat land dog

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Eloisa James

cat dog play

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

Eloisa James

cat dog needs

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

Eloisa James

axes live-in-the-moment world

If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

Eloisa James

house sleep doors

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

Eloisa James

hair sheep beautiful

I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.

Eloisa James

light morning believe

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

Eloisa James

ruined gingerbread almighty

Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

Eloisa James

wish together school

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

Eloisa James

girl mother feet

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

Eloisa James

realizing goes-on giving

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

Eloisa James

voice said love-you

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

Eloisa James

voice shining thinking

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

Eloisa James

more-time

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

Eloisa James

gowns dresses sometimes

Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.

Eloisa James

chance tomorrow kind

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Eloisa James

choices doe giving

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

Eloisa James

come-back-to-me please funeral

I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.

Eloisa James

kissing morning boys