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“For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.”
“Her laugh was wonderful. It was mischief made musical.”
“I will die, however, he said quite seriously, if you leave me again. Just watch me.”
“I will die, however,” he said quite seriously, “if you leave me again. Just watch me.”
“It isn't a weakness to accept kindness. It isn't a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.”
“But she bravely kept her eyes open; she was both lost and found in the soft, burning depths of his eyes.”
“He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.”
“What happens next?" she whispered.Connor turned to her and smiled faintly. Always a question, that was Rebecca.There's more?" he said in mock wondermentRebecca dimpled.You know very well there is m...”
“I love you so much i can hardly tell my own heart from yours anymore, and I've never said it to another woman in my life as it's never until now been true.”
“He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.”
“He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We never discussed sniffing! I cry foul!' Ian was outraged. 'I'm not giving you a shilling!' -'Give him ...”
“I don't know,' he said irritably. 'Is it meant to improve you?'She swiveled toward him, eyes wide with shock.'Because nothing could,' he added. Her mouth dropped in astonishment. Blotchy scarlet ru...”
“Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked.”
“Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.”
“The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?" "I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.”
“He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.”
“Magnanimous of you.'His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo.”
“Rebecca stared back at him, still dazed. She'd forgotten how to speak; it seemed an unimportant skill, anyhow, when such kisses were to be had, when a whole world could be made from a kiss.”
“Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if hed drawn them into being.”
“But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable musi...”
“Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a bonnet.'Mr. Postlethwaite was silent. And then his eyes crept toward the marquess's hairlin...”
“Only two things kept her from loathing him.The expression on his face when he'd said, "France." And the expression on his face when he'd said, "home.”
“He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.”
“I love you," she murmured. The words ... it was as though an entire sun had exploded in his chest.He'd been ridiculous. His thrashing thoughts, his grand confusion and torment and helplessness -- i...”
