Eloisa James Quotes

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

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

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

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.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

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.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

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

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

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

Mr. Cope...' Povy began.Jem narrowed his eyes.'The lad has a remarkably innocent face.''Innocence is a time of life, not an irrevocable blot.

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

It was awful, this love.

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.

A fit encomium for marital bliss, " Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver.