Top 25 Laura Kinsale Quotes (2024 Update)

Laura Kinsale Quote: “I’m not your friend, my lady. I’m your lover.”

1. “I’m not your friend, my lady. I’m your lover.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “Right here, you’re killing me.”

2. “Right here, you’re killing me.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “He put his fist against his chest. “Burn, Maddygirl,” he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.”

3. “He put his fist against his chest. “Burn, Maddygirl,” he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “The chilly mist settled down around them, sinking like midnight into his bones. His arm hurt, and his heart felt like an open wound in his chest.”

4. “The chilly mist settled down around them, sinking like midnight into his bones. His arm hurt, and his heart felt like an open wound in his chest.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do... Now, with so much, it was daily a decision: what was necessary, what was frivolous... It was so much gray – so little black and white; for a year she’d spent more of her time questioning herself and how she lived in Truth than she had done altogether in her life.”

5. “It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do... Now, with so much, it was daily a decision: what was necessary, what was frivolous... It was so much gray – so little black and white; for a year she’d spent more of her time questioning herself and how she lived in Truth than she had done altogether in her life.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “But I don’t arrange a very good abduction, I’m afraid. In my haste to seize you and carry you off to the ends of the earth, I seem to have forgotten a few of the important articles. Such as baggage.” “It was a perfect abduction,” she declared. “Pray do not carp about the details.”

6. “But I don’t arrange a very good abduction, I’m afraid. In my haste to seize you and carry you off to the ends of the earth, I seem to have forgotten a few of the important articles. Such as baggage.” “It was a perfect abduction,” she declared. “Pray do not carp about the details.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “He lifted his eyes. They were the color of the deepest heart of hurricane clouds, deeper blue than the sky behind him.”

7. “He lifted his eyes. They were the color of the deepest heart of hurricane clouds, deeper blue than the sky behind him.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me – as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don’t always like what they become myself, but like a parent, there are times when I just don’t know what to do about it. Other times when I’m so proud of them I could bust.”

8. “My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me – as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don’t always like what they become myself, but like a parent, there are times when I just don’t know what to do about it. Other times when I’m so proud of them I could bust.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “The flame in her was slow and deep-he was going to incite it with the fire in himself; he was going to make a blaze to burn down cities, to lay waste cathedrals and castles and plain meetinghouses-to make a world where it was only him, and only her, and this bed, and one flesh.”

9. “The flame in her was slow and deep-he was going to incite it with the fire in himself; he was going to make a blaze to burn down cities, to lay waste cathedrals and castles and plain meetinghouses-to make a world where it was only him, and only her, and this bed, and one flesh.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “The flowers were opulent, full-blown, topple shower petals at a touch. He thought that she might topple that way, falling all at once into his hand, a soft drift of blossom between his fingers. The roses bowed their extravagant heads, nodding, but she was all stiff prim and black, back in her bonnet, so that he could not see her face unless she looked directly at him.”

10. “The flowers were opulent, full-blown, topple shower petals at a touch. He thought that she might topple that way, falling all at once into his hand, a soft drift of blossom between his fingers. The roses bowed their extravagant heads, nodding, but she was all stiff prim and black, back in her bonnet, so that he could not see her face unless she looked directly at him.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “To try to let go was to hold more tightly.”

11. “To try to let go was to hold more tightly.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.”

12. “It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “He came down the nave, walking with his graceful stride, dangerous and tear-stained.”

13. “He came down the nave, walking with his graceful stride, dangerous and tear-stained.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can’t write fast enough for me.”

14. “What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can’t write fast enough for me.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “But no monk am I in my head, God grant me pardon,” he whispered. His body drew closer, velvet and taut elegance. “My confessor has chastised me oft, and bade me study on my sins at length. And so, lady” – he kissed her, the hunger in it sinking down through her like a comet falling – “I have studied.”

15. “But no monk am I in my head, God grant me pardon,” he whispered. His body drew closer, velvet and taut elegance. “My confessor has chastised me oft, and bade me study on my sins at length. And so, lady” – he kissed her, the hunger in it sinking down through her like a comet falling – “I have studied.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “The silvery aura from the window fell across his face, lighting a translucent, pale fire in his gray eyes. She could identify no telltale trace of humor or mockery in his features. There was simply his austere male beauty, that sullen perfection marred only by the little scar across his left eyebrow, which showed more clearly in the thin winter light.”

16. “The silvery aura from the window fell across his face, lighting a translucent, pale fire in his gray eyes. She could identify no telltale trace of humor or mockery in his features. There was simply his austere male beauty, that sullen perfection marred only by the little scar across his left eyebrow, which showed more clearly in the thin winter light.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “If you’re not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?” For a moment he was silent. Then he rubbed his chin and said, “There’s no name for it in English.” “Oh, is there not? ‘Burglary’ seems descriptive enough.” “Kyojitsu.” He looked levelly into her eyes, not wavering. “False-true.”

17. “If you’re not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?” For a moment he was silent. Then he rubbed his chin and said, “There’s no name for it in English.” “Oh, is there not? ‘Burglary’ seems descriptive enough.” “Kyojitsu.” He looked levelly into her eyes, not wavering. “False-true.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “She was afraid, too, frightened of what she found herself becoming. She felt that she was transforming into a malevolent black spider, hunched back in her crack, staring out at the world and despising everything and everyone for having what she did not.”

18. “She was afraid, too, frightened of what she found herself becoming. She felt that she was transforming into a malevolent black spider, hunched back in her crack, staring out at the world and despising everything and everyone for having what she did not.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “Was that what she meant? Why she cried? Because he was an animal afraid to leave its cage, no words to say what he thought, no thoughts but muddled mad stupid thoughts?”

19. “Was that what she meant? Why she cried? Because he was an animal afraid to leave its cage, no words to say what he thought, no thoughts but muddled mad stupid thoughts?”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.”

20. “There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “He plucked at a long rose cane that attempted to grab his sleeve as he passed through the gate. “Good morning, my lady. May I give you my arm up the street? I’m engaged to escort this rosebush to the shops, but I’ll fob it off.”

21. “He plucked at a long rose cane that attempted to grab his sleeve as he passed through the gate. “Good morning, my lady. May I give you my arm up the street? I’m engaged to escort this rosebush to the shops, but I’ll fob it off.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “No rule but love between us.”

22. “No rule but love between us.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “Her heart and breath felt as if they had deserted her, declaring they were off to join the navy and might come back to visit in a few years if she were lucky.”

23. “Her heart and breath felt as if they had deserted her, declaring they were off to join the navy and might come back to visit in a few years if she were lucky.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “At the corner he turned, looking back up at her. She put her palm to the glass.”

24. “At the corner he turned, looking back up at her. She put her palm to the glass.”

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Laura Kinsale Quote: “It was high time that she left behind these silly daydreams, before she became odd and ended up locked in some attic, collecting bits of string and candle wax and muttering.”

25. “It was high time that she left behind these silly daydreams, before she became odd and ended up locked in some attic, collecting bits of string and candle wax and muttering.”

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