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“That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.”
“Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.”
“She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.”
“Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.”
“Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”
“What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.”
“Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums--at least not outside of one's own home, which ...”
“One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.”
“What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....”
“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.”
“How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insul...”
