Meredith Duran quotes:

You are...beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all.

I'll draw up a list. [...] You can give me a general idea, if you like: hair color, eye color-""None!""None? Bit of a tall order, there, Gwen. Aristocracy lacks for albinos."

For poor taste in husbands, her judgment rivaled Anne Boleyn's.

He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.

Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.' Lady Nora: 'I am sorry to hear that, I suppose it takes some wit to produce one's own entertainment. Are you often bored?

I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.

There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.