“I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.”
“Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.”
“I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked.
"Thank you, husband.”
“If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.”
“You take my heart with you, my loving captor."
"Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.”
“The man irritated her just like a rash.”
“Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.”
“You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne.”
“It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder.
"What's a shame?" Duncan asked.
"That I didn't capture her first."
Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.”
“For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.”
“Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.”
“If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.
"Then I'll take every care."
"You promise me?"
"I promise you.”
“He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to
take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough.
Until she'd warmed his feet.
Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they
were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.”
“I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice.
"Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you."
"And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild.
"Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.”
“You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you." - Duncan to Madelyne.”
“Madelyne, I would like to speak to you in private after dinner."
"Speak to me about what?" Madelyne demanded with a disgruntled look.
"Men and their horses," Duncan told her”
“She wished she could understand her reaction to him. Why, her heart was pacing a wild beat again.
Madelyne dared a quick look up and found Duncan was watching her intently. He looked so handsome.
She wanted him to be ugly.”
“He was as naked as a wolf. Madelyne grabbed the blanket and threw it toward him. "Cover yourself, Duncan. It isn't decent to let me see your legs.”
“You've given me value, Duncan. In my heart I know I matter to you.”
“When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?”
“I do know, however, that they took more than one man to their beds.”
Adela gasped and Madelyne nodded, thoroughly satisfied by her friend’s reaction. “More than one at a time?” Adela asked. She whispered the question and then blushed with embarrassment.
Madelyne nibbled on her lip while she considered if that was possible.
“I don’t think so,” she finally announced. Her back was to the door, and Adela’s full attention was centered on her friend. Neither noticed Duncan now stood in the open doorway.”
“She was more frightened of the stallion than she was of the Baron.”
“To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.” PLATO, GORGIAS”
“Abhor that which is evil; Cleave to that which is good.”
“life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre”
“Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”
“...when we move out of faith into the act ofJ creation, the universe is able to advance.”
“It was the way your sweet, soft hands wiped away my tears, and the way your body just curved into mine when you let me hold you. It all made me feel, for just an instant, that everything really was going to be all right. No one has ever comforted me like that…except my mom.” What the fuck? Did I just say all that out loud? I shook my head furiously from side to side as the room started spinning me like a Tilt-a-Whirl at the county fair back home.
Abby grabbed my shoulders to steady me. I blinked my eyes trying to focus on her blurry, but beautiful image. “Most of all, it’s that I want someone like you to want me—just for me, not for Jake Slater the singer of Runaway Train.” I smacked my hand hard against my chest. “For what’s really inside me.”
“On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo’s computer as a shitload.”
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