Best The Raven Prince Quotes by Elizabeth Hoyt

"Idiot, Anna thought, but that was not what she said."

"Respectable widows of a certain age do not hurl epithets, however apt, at gentlemen."

"What the hell were you doing in the middle of the road, you silly woman?"

"You are not suggesting...? I think it will be just the thing."

"The earl has journeyed to London on business. He often spends his time there, you know."

"He's got a terrible sharp tongue. Perhaps that's why Mr. Tootleham left so..."

"The earl is quite an authority on agricultural matters."

"I am most relieved." Anna smiled. "I thought from your manner that the disease was fatal."

"But I thought you understood, Dr. Billings. We wish to nurse her here at the cottage."

"We’ve decided to take care of the woman. Her profession doesn’t change that fact."

"It may be easier, but it isn’t necessarily the right way, Mother. Surely you can see that?"

"If I’ve never stepped outside the role that’s been assigned to me since birth, I’ve never tested myself."

"I don’t know why they left her palms and feet," James said as the congregation began rising.

"I wouldn’t want to be deprived of your dulcet company for even a moment."

"The dog by his side stood and wagged his tail."

"She wore a mask and searched for the earl."
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"But was she a whore? That was the problem. The question had gone around and around in his head all the night long."

"I’m going to replace you with a trained bear. It couldn’t possibly perform any worse than you."

"I don’t give a bloody damn about the professional integrity of a whorehouse. Who. Is. She?"

"You offend me deeply," the viscount said as he smothered a yawn. "Besides, you yourself must’ve engaged in debauchery of one sort or another at the goddess’s domain. Admit it."

"She hadn’t been curious until after she’d left."

"It’s funny, though. When I first came back, I kept expecting to see him here in the stables. I’d walk in and look up—for his face, I guess." Edward blinked and murmured, almost to himself, "Sometimes I still do."

"I alone lived. Out of all of them, I survived."

"Oh, dear God, to be capable of giving Edward children! What she wouldn’t do, what she wouldn’t give up, to be able to hold a baby."

"This was my brother’s favorite place," he said finally. "Samuel, my younger brother."

"It was the man she’d craved, not the physical act."

"Edward’s voice didn’t sound much better than her own."

"He wanted me to become his mistress. I refused."

"I’m the last of my line, the last of the de Raafs," he said.

"I don’t give a damn what’s proper," Edward said.

"I thought I did. As it turned out, I didn’t know her that well."

"She just bled and bled until her very life bled away. There was so much blood in the bed, the mattress was soaked through."

"I need you. I told you that, but you didn’t seem to believe me."

"I love you. I need you. Please trust me enough to be my wife."

"You are my family. If we never have children, I will be disappointed, but if I never have you, I will be devastated."

"Don’t ever leave me again, Anna. I won’t survive the next time."

"I already know you are barren. I’m content with you as you are."

"But he had you. Do you know how happy I was when Peter married you?"

"I love you so much, Edward. What if we never have a family?"

"It’s not enough that you had to fight that awful man. You let him hurt you. You’re bleeding all over the floor."