“I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.”
“She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover.”
“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
“Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection...”
“a man is alsoa woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life.”
“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”