To All the Earls I've Loved Before Quotes

“Does he know? Or are you torturing the poor man?”
“Torturing him?” Gwendolen said with genuine surprise.
“Torturing him into thinking he is the only one in love!”
“Oh.” Gwendolen sighed. “He is not in love with me.” She was not sure what he was. “At least, he has not said so.”
“You sound quite sorry about that. Almost as if you cared.”
― Fenna Edgewood, To All the Earls I've Loved Before

“This would not do. She would have to learn to control it.
She could not go around feeling such uncontrollable swells of feeling for her husband.
Especially not when such feelings stirred up desires and when desires became deeds.
Deeds like secretly kissing her husband in his bed while he was sleeping.”
― Fenna Edgewood, To All the Earls I've Loved Before

“I want you in every way there is to want. I want you in any way you choose to share.”
― Fenna Edgewood, To All the Earls I've Loved Before

“That was...” she said, shakily.
“Divine? Incredible? Ecstasy inducing?”
“I was going to say... utterly new,” she said, shyly.
He looked surprised, then another emotion passed over his face.
“Do you mean to say...”
She interrupted before he could ask the wrong question. Or the right one.
“The earl and I..." She paused to take a breath. "We were... not intimate.”
“Not ever?” he asked, incredulous.
She shook her head, biting her lip. Should she say more? Did he deserve to know?
“I have only ever...” She bit her lip again, this time because she could feel a swelling of unwanted tears. She looked up at the ceiling of the room. The beautiful craftsmanship of the elaborate molding. “There was only the one time. And it was...not like this.”
“Only the one time?” He sounded even more incredulous. His eyes narrowed. “What do you mean not like this?”
― Fenna Edgewood, To All the Earls I've Loved Before