Loretta Chase Zitate

“I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!”

“And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.”

“She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.”

“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.”

“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”

“I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..”

“Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.”

“Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English."

"But Italian is so moving," Dain said.

"To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." I've wanted you from the first moment I saw you.

"Mi tormenti ancora." You've tormented me ever since.”

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.”

“I should like to see you try.”

“Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!”
Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.”

“We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.”

“I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.”

“I want you," she said.
"I told you so," he said.”