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“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at o...”
“Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?”
“She has a charm that is incomparable. She has a beautiful heart that flows with love. And she has a sensitive soul that enthralls with magic. She was the spark I had been waiting for all my life.”
“She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!”
“Your mind, your words, your charm and your style are all the sexiness that I need in my life!”
“The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.”
“He does not need to be an emperor, but a prince.If he has enough charm or elegance to convince.”
“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining ...”
“Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may b...”
“There used to be a canny politician in the Hyde Park area in Chicago in which I at one time lived for several years. His slogan was "I am for harmony if I have to use an axe." As "Secretary of Char...”
“To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.”
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”
“Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.”
“Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.”
“She once told him about the mysterious trampled-down places found in fields, which the peasants superstitiously called werewolves' nests. Coming across one of these sites, she fell to her knees and...”
“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”
“Somehow, it bothered her watching Garths charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?”
“Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinnas hands, desirable by Peetas confession, tragic by circumstance...”
“The Snowflake CharmBe As Unique As A Snowflake: Embrace All Your Dimensions”
“She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.”
