{"author":"Loretta Chase","author_id":"Loretta+Chase","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.”Cows?She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["comedy","humor","jessica-trent"],"id":21620,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don't have any medical treatises about. I'm sure I need read a paragraph or two, and you will become ravenous with lust and begin tearing my clothes off. (Dorian from 'The Mad Earl's Bride').","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["geeky","humor","lust","medical"],"id":33538,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.”She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["humor","jessica-trent","romance"],"id":53008,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement,' she said. 'It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-'I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden,' he said.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["lord-perfect","romance"],"id":68878,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"I want you,' she said.'I told you so,' he said.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["romance"],"id":80228,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"I don't know who had the training of you,' he continued doggedly, 'but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I'm going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I'll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["romance"],"id":86123,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"With the world securely in order, Dain was able to devote the leisurely bath time to editing his mental dictionary. He removed his wife from the general category labeled 'Females' and gave her a section of her own. He made a note that she didn't find him revolting, and proposed several explanations: (a) bad eyesight and faulty hearing, (b)a defect in a portion of her otherwise sound intellect, (c) an inherited Trent eccentricity, or (d) an act of God. Since the Almighty had not done him a single act of kindness in at least twenty-five years, Dain thought it was about bloody time, but he thanked his Heavenly Father all the same, and promised to be as good as he was capable of being.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["humor","jessica-trent","romance"],"id":100261,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["books","humor"],"id":107459,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["humor","jessica-trent","romance"],"id":117615,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"},{"text":"She was a dreamer and a schemer \u0026 one didnt dream and scheme without hope.","author":"Loretta Chase","tags":["hope"],"id":129740,"author_id":"Loretta+Chase"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}