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“Eliza had never seen Alex quite so happy and relaxed. She shook her head and laughed at the incongruity of it all: Imagine General Washington's famous aide-de-camp taking the time to stop and admir...”
“And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less than a love story for the ages found the lifelong...”
“I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.”
“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.”
“She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.”
“Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.”
“I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies o...”
“Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned”
“He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--”
“French Revolution- all them fellas the figgered her out got their heads chopped off. Always that way, jus as natural as rain. You didn't do it for fun no way. Doin' it cause you have to. Cause it's...”
“Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.”
“And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood”
“All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the head ...”
“Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.”
“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.”
“I cannot tell you how exciting it is when you first see your book in paperback, then when the good reviews roll in it is just the red bow on the present under the tree.”
“If I had two breaths left inme, one first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.”
“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.”
“Did I behave myself tonight, Ross? she asked. Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?You misbehaved monstrously, he said, and were a triumph.”
“If I had two breaths left in me, the first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.”
