38 Quotes & Sayings By Sherry Thomas

Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it. Sherry Thomas

Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once. Sherry Thomas

The prince set her down and dismissed his valet. The latter left with a bow and closed the door. Leaning against the wall, the prince pulled off his stockings. As he walked toward the amethyst tub, he yanked his shirt over his head. He was lean and tightly sinewed. Her little bird heart thudded. He glanced at her, his lips curved in not quite a smile. The next thing she knew, his shirt had flown through the air and landed on the cage, blocking her view toward the bathtub.“ Sorry, sweetheart. I am shy.” She chirped indignantly. It was not as if she would have continued to watch him disrobe beyond a certain point. . Sherry Thomas

All right, my hope–but I am not saying the rest of it– I have something you need to feel.” She feigned the sound of outrage. “But we barely know each other, sir! ” He laughed softly. “But you must hold it in your hand and feel it change, ” he urged, in her ear. “I insist. I can wait no longer.” She knew they were on a serious subject, but the flutter of his breath on her skin, the low drawl of his words–heat raced along all her nerve endings. “Will I like it?”“ Well, I do have to apologize for its size. It is rather small.” And with that, he pressed something rather small into her hand. . Sherry Thomas

There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither. Sherry Thomas

Even they would think you a monster were you toorchestrate a divorce right after my confinement.”“ How long do you recommend I wait, then?”“ A long time. I know what happens when a divorce is granted: The woman never gets anything. And I will not be parted from my child.”“ So you will contest the divorce?”“ To my last penny. And then I’ll borrow from Fitz and Millie.”“So we’ll be married ’til the end of time?”“ The sooner you accept it, the sooner we are all better off.” His ancestors would have appreciated her hauteur: a fit wife for a de Montfort. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I must have enough rest.” He gazed at her retreating back. Foolish woman, did she not realize that he’d already accepted it from the moment he’d said “I do”? . Sherry Thomas

He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest chemists in the world–there must be something detectibly different in her inner workings for him to respond so dramatically, as if he’d been given a drug for which science had yet to find a name. But more than anything, he wanted to–. Sherry Thomas

The next minute he realized what had happened to him, but not before she’d caught him staring. For a decade, I was fixated by her beauty. I wrote an entire article on the evolutionary significance of beauty as a rebuke to myself, that I, who understood the concepts so well, nevertheless could not escape the magnetic pull of one particular woman’s beauty. She knew. With surgical precision, she had peeled back his layers of defenses, until his heart lay bare before her, all its shame and yearning exposed. He could have lived with this if only he’d kept his secret whole and buried. But she knew. She knew. Sherry Thomas

The explanation for her absence had been staring him in the face all the while, but he hadn’t wanted to acknowledge it: The affair meant nothing to her. He’d been the only one bewitched body and soul. For her, he’d been but a temporary source of entertainment, a way to pass the otherwise tedious hours in the middle of an ocean. He’d been the one to press for a continuation of their affair beyond the voyage. He’d been the one to offer his heart, his hand, his every last secret. She never even gave her real name. And, of course, never showed her face. . Sherry Thomas

For the next three seconds, he still dared to let himself hope. Perhaps she was making a grand entrance. Perhaps she would be carried in like Cleopatra, hidden in a roll of fine carpet. Perhaps– Three porters, grunting, pulled in a handcart. A crevasse opened before him and in fell his heart. No need to remove the tarpaulin wrapping. He recognized the stone slabby its size and weight. She had returned his present. She would have nothing more to do with him. Sherry Thomas

..So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know. I have never known such happiness, shot through with such misery. Only four days have passed, they tell me. But that is not true. It has been decades since I sawyou last. You will find me a stooped old man when we meet again. Perhaps I might even need a pair of spectacles to recognize your veil. But I remain always, Your servant, C. One of Christian's onesided letters to the Baroness. Sherry Thomas

For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity? Sherry Thomas

It won’t be disagreeable, ” he said. “It can be made quite enjoyable.”“ Oh, it had better be, ” she said tartly. “I’ve heard plenty over the years on your amatory prowess. If I’m not on the roof crowing, I will consider myself disappointed. Sherry Thomas

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven? Sherry Thomas

We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?"" Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard. Sherry Thomas

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage. Sherry Thomas

She had very much looked forward to a word in private with him. But she forgot, as she usually did, the silence that always came between them in these latter years, whenever they found themselves alone. The queer sensation in her chest, however, was all too familiar, that mix of pleasure and pain, never one without the other. She could have done without those feelings. She would have happily gone her entire life never experiencing the pangs of longing and the futility of regret. He made her human–or as human as she was capable of being. And being human was possibly her least favorite aspect of life. . Sherry Thomas

She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non- Euclidean geometry. Sherry Thomas

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished. Sherry Thomas

As a youth, I listened to the rain from the bowers of pleasure houses, Red silk drapes translucent in the glow of candlelight. In my prime, I listened to the rain as a traveler, The sky low, the river broad, the calls of the wild geese harsh and cold. Now, grey at the temples, I listen to the rain beneath the eaves of an abandoned cloister. Has mine been a futile life? I have no answers, only the sound of raindrops upon worn stone steps, And long hours yet to pass before the light of dawn. . Sherry Thomas

That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence. Sherry Thomas

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be. Sherry Thomas

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting. Sherry Thomas

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live. Sherry Thomas

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe. Sherry Thomas

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it. Sherry Thomas

Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. “I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?” He smiled. “And I love you too, darling.”- Lizzy and Will Sherry Thomas

You can live forever for me. Sherry Thomas

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off. Sherry Thomas

I’ve always loved you, ” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.”“ Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is, ” he said with a quiet intensity. “What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation. Sherry Thomas

Fortune favors the brave." Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune! Sherry Thomas

I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here."" I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal."" Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows. Sherry Thomas