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“May I see your dance card?Dont you believe me? She presented it to him with a flourish.He ran his fingers down the list of names.Hmm . . . Waterburn? Bastard. DAndre. Definitely a worthless bastard...”
“Her laugh was wonderful. It was mischief made musical.”
“For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.”
“The one thing shed been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only ever...”
“I will die, however, he said quite seriously, if you leave me again. Just watch me.”
“And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be as tense as a crossbow drawn back. The reader should want it as badly as the hero and h...”
“I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.”
“She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.”
“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.”
“May I see your dance card?”“Don’t you believe me?” She presented it to him with a flourish.He ran his fingers down the list of names.“Hmm . . . Waterburn? Bastard. D’Andre. Definitely a worthless b...”
“The one thing she’d been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only eve...”
“I will die, however,” he said quite seriously, “if you leave me again. Just watch me.”
