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“He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?""Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with yo...”
“Damn, you're good,' he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn't much for flowery speech, Alesandra thought with a smile. It didn't matter. She was arrogantly proud of herself because she'd ple...”
“If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.”
“You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I wi...”
“I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us.”
“Yes. Kissing. Overrated.""I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out of them both. Why would he take something as simple as this banter as a challenge? "I don't know that I want ...”
“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and Im still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse. Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn ...”
“I was born Katie OReilly, she began. Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my hee...”
“A little later, Sherri went to get the laundry. She had to go down to the wash house and sought it. She needed to get clean bed clothes for the beds. When she came round the corner, she ran into Ma...”
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my husband and my boy. I will not let harm come to either of them.”
“And then the great music of which the world is made took him over, beyond thought, beyond control until he heard her cry his name and they fell together off the edge of the world.”
“How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years? Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.The same way a man does."Which is?"Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smil...”
“Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.”
“Charlotte Richmond says of herself: I have few ladylike accomplishments. I cannot sing, I cannot draw, I cannot play the pianoforte or the harp and I cannot produce delicately beautiful embroiderie...”
“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarg...”
“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.”
“They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won't stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.”
“Frederick's wit was impressive. When a descendant of Ghengis Khan, who was wreaking havoc in the Muslim world, wrote threateningly that the holy Roman Emperor should surrender his lands and come to...”
“There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.”
