{"quotes":[{"text":"If you keep your head screwed on right in so doing, then your experience thus gained is most valuable in enabling you to gauge human beings and their ways. (Advice in letter from 8th Duke of Rutland, to his son later the 9th Duke.","author":"Catherine Bailey","tags":["advice","duke","duke-of-rutland","human-nature"],"id":56436,"author_id":"Catherine+Bailey"},{"text":"Baseball was a safe bet. Baseball also didn't have a girlfriend. Then again, baseball didn't have big brown eyes or show a little hint of cleavage under its uniforms. Decisions, decisions.","author":"Rachel Spangler","tags":["baseball","brown-eyes","cleavage","crush","decisions","duke","heart-of-the-game","lesbian-romance","lgbtqia","rachel-spangler","romance"],"id":56536,"author_id":"Rachel+Spangler"},{"text":"At least, for once I was there for her. I didn’t fail her. She wasn’t alone. — Duke.","author":"Stephanie Witter","tags":["college","college-romance","contemporary","contemporary-romance","duke","fix-up","new-adult","patch-up-series","romance","skye"],"id":60738,"author_id":"Stephanie+Witter"},{"text":"The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.","author":"Barbara T. Cerny","tags":["1100s","angel","angels","animagus","d-d","devil","devil-touched","druids","duchy","duke","dungeons-and-dragons","dungeons-dragons","early-church","evil","exorcism","family","fantasy","glaxton","god","harpy","heaven","hell","historical","historical-romance","hounds-of-hell","lord","love","macbeth","manor","nobility","nun","paranormal-romance","peasant","pictish","redemption","relationships","religion","righteousness","romance","sacred-sword","scotland","soul","souls","tiefling","time-manipulation","vampires","viking","wolf"],"id":67307,"author_id":"Barbara+T.+Cerny"},{"text":"He stopped, finally, and smiled. “Honestly? With this thing I think I could get my jerk-off muscles so well-developed that I could rub out a spooge with one pump! If that’s not worth $19.95, I don’t know what is.","author":"Debra Anastasia","tags":["90-off","dove","duke","evil","worst"],"id":158729,"author_id":"Debra+Anastasia"},{"text":"Get me your manager.” Dove held her head high and tried to seem older and more self-assured. The teenager barely registered her request. “Do it now. My friend here is about to crap his pants. Do you want to smell it?” Dove slapped her hands down on the counter, snapping the life into the girl. “Do you want to smell his shit?","author":"Debra Anastasia","tags":["crap","dove","duke","fire-down-below","job","shit"],"id":173632,"author_id":"Debra+Anastasia"},{"text":"I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.","author":"Barbara T. Cerny","tags":["1100s","angel","angels","animagus","d-d","devil","devil-touched","druids","duchy","duke","dungeons-and-dragons","dungeons-dragons","early-church","evil","exorcism","family","fantasy","glaxton","god","harpy","heaven","hell","historical","historical-romance","hounds-of-hell","lord","love","macbeth","manor","nobility","nun","paranormal-romance","peasant","pictish","redemption","relationships","religion","righteousness","romance","sacred-sword","scotland","soul","souls","tiefling","time-manipulation","vampires","viking","wolf"],"id":208854,"author_id":"Barbara+T.+Cerny"},{"text":"It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. — Skye.","author":"Stephanie Witter","tags":["college","contemporary","contemporary-romance","drama","duke","fix-up","patch-up-series","romance","skye"],"id":258001,"author_id":"Stephanie+Witter"},{"text":"There are four things that make a man fight as you just did,' the duke explained to Rumbold. 'Love, despair, anger, or insanity.'Erik counted them off on his fingers. 'Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.","author":"Alethea Kontis","tags":["anger","despair","duke","erik","fight","guard","insanity","love","prince","rumbold","velius"],"id":316516,"author_id":"Alethea+Kontis"},{"text":"I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.","author":"Christina Dodd","tags":["bride","christina-dodd","duke","governess-brides","historical-adventure","historical-fiction","historical-romance","romance"],"id":317823,"author_id":"Christina+Dodd"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}