The Duke and I Quotes

“I knew nothing but love and devotion while I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.”

“Don’t you worry, my little man. I shall love you always. I’ll teach you your letters and your numbers, and how to sit on a horse.”

“Your father is still ruling you from the grave.”

″‘I can’t even look at him,’ he gasped. ‘I can’t even bear to look at him.‘”

“The household prayed for the duke, who so wanted an heir, and a few remembered to pray for the duchess, who had grown thin and frail even as her belly had grown round and wide.”

“Simon felt the duke’s rejection in his very bones, felt a peculiar kind of pain enter his body and creep around his heart. And, as hatred flooded his body and poured from his eyes, he made a solemn vow. If he couldn’t be the son his father wanted, then by God, he’d be the exact opposite…”

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”

“I’m unmarried because everyone sees me as a friend. No one ever has any romantic interest in me.”

“Really, if people weren’t so intent on keeping young women completely ignorant of the realities of marriage, scenes like this could be avoided.”

“Many a woman has been ruined by a single kiss.”