Loretta Chase Quotes

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.

"Miss you," he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said."I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

I'm no good at being good.

I should like to see you try.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.

I want you, " she said."I told you so, " he said.

I love these pet names, " she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!