Top 80 Eloisa James Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Eloisa James

52. “He had thought she was like a drink of clear water. But now, meeting her gaze, she was a river that tumbled with life and danger. She would change his life. She would change everything about him.”

— Eloisa James

53. “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.”

— Eloisa James

54. “The books weren’t exactly Linnet’s general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.”

— Eloisa James

55. “I have bought a house, but not possessedit.” She was quite sure that the look in her eyes rivaled that of any light skirts on the streets of London. “And I am sold, but not yet enjoyed.”

— Eloisa James

56. “I’ve never been tempted to sleep with the same woman every night myself. Let alone reproduce myself in a leaky, noisy miniature human.”

— Eloisa James

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

— Eloisa James

58. “I may not have been the first to wish to marry her, but I am the one who succeeded.”

— Eloisa James

59. “Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. ‘The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can’t talk myself out of being in love with you.”

— Eloisa James

60. “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.”

— Eloisa James

61. “Just at the moment, her life seemed oddly thin.”

— Eloisa James

62. “Husbands have tender egos, even if they garner their compliments from unlikely places.”

— Eloisa James

63. “Bucknell joined their family, editing her.”

— Eloisa James

64. “Theo shook out the half square of heavy silk. “It will make all the difference to this insipid gown.” With one sharp wrench she pulled out the lace fichu tucked into her bodice and replaced it with the scarf. It flashed raspberry red against the almond-colored muslin of her gown.”

— Eloisa James

65. “Nothing I do is princely since I met you.”

— Eloisa James

66. “If I see any man dipping toward the ground in your vicinity, I shall punt him out the door,” Trent promised. “I.”

— Eloisa James

67. “He walked until his heart was as dreary as the sky, until some sort of truth came to him.”

— Eloisa James

68. “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.”

— Eloisa James

69. “He couldn’t imagine how he had lived without her for seven years. She was like sunlight. Like food and drink.”

— Eloisa James

70. “Moreover, when there is rough ground to be covered, a glass of wine does not go amiss.”

— Eloisa James

71. “She may have lost faith in love, but readers needed her novels, especially when they were sick at heart, desperate, nearing death, or watching a loved one fade. They needed to believe in the fairy tale that she no longer believed in herself.”

— Eloisa James

72. “Just before he opened the door, he stopped and dropped a kiss on her nose. “If I were to marry anyone, Linnet, it would be you.” “I always knew these breasts would come in handy,” she said with satisfaction.”

— Eloisa James

73. “How can I not think of you as Daisy when your hair is all about your face like the petals of a flower?” He crouched down on his heels before her chair and picked up a thick curl. “It’s glossy, like sunshine.”

— Eloisa James

74. “Thirty is a watershed year for men. If they’re going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don’t, it’s too late.”

— Eloisa James

75. “To have him walk toward her with that intent look on his face, as if nothing in the world could satisfy him but her. Damn.”

— Eloisa James

76. “It was awful, this love.”

— Eloisa James

77. “They were talking about things that didn’t matter a fig, not with the huge yawning grief burning a hole in his chest because of what had happened to her. To Josie. His Josie, now.”

— Eloisa James

78. “Jemma got up and perched on the arm of Isidore’s chair. “Marriage is a great destroyer of logic, but I do think it’s a benefit to begin with a sane husband.”

— Eloisa James

79. “I’m not afraid because I love you and I will always love you. always. Your love stands between me and fear.”

— Eloisa James

80. “Most of England would consider him fortunate, and Thaddeus had always agreed. But in this moment, on this moonlit night, he felt as if he had only just discovered what it meant to be truly blessed. It was to be loved.”

— Eloisa James

81. “A small red face ringed in soft black curls looked up at him for one moment, registered that he wasn’t the milk-providing parent, and erupted back into a howl. There was no telling Lucia that she was a pebble on the shores of eternity. She was a living, breathing, adorable source of chaos, and he loved her so much that it felt as if his heart were beating outside his body.”

— Eloisa James

82. “Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.”

— Eloisa James

83. “I was thinking the other day that his life reminds me of throwing a piece of bread into a stream and watching a whole flock of little minnows come up and start nibbling at it.”

— Eloisa James

84. “It look as if Kate was saying goodbye to Henry and Leo, but that couldn’t be. She couldn’t be leaving... he had to see her tomorrow morning, see her one more time.”

— Eloisa James

85. “He paused, his eyes searching hers. “I loved Thorn. I love India, Chuffy, of course, Charlie. And you. You most of all, Mia.”

— Eloisa James

86. “Siblings grow on you in insidious ways.”

— Eloisa James

87. “He took one step forward, thinking to run after the carriage, to run mad, madder than he already was.”

— Eloisa James