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He’d been her one taste of the forbidden fruit. A slow coil of anger began to burn deep inside him. Nobody ever asked the damned fruit if it wanted to be forbidden.
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He’d started caring more about becoming the kind of person who could make a change than he cared about the change itself.
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In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.
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If a woman is old enough to push a ten-pound child through her birth canal, she can hear words like ‘penis’ and ‘cervix.’ These are medical terms, Miss Charingford, not obscenities.
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Third, as the ladies have clearly mastered the female art of chastity, our masculine inability to control our urges rather weakens our claims to be the stronger sex.
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Nothing was what she was; nothing was what she gave to those foolish enough to care for her. Nothing was what she deserved, and so nothing had been what she got. It didn’t matter how hard she tried or what she did.
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“What part of your duty am I?" He squeezed her hand. "You're the ray of sun at the center of the storm.
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My nerves are neither over- nor underwrought. They are wrought to the precise degree demanded by this situation.
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I’m Edward Clark. Born Edward Delacey. Now, apparently, Viscount Claridge.” He shut his eyes. “You can address me by my preferred title: you idiot.
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“I worry about you,” he finally said to Free. “I’m afraid that you’re going to break your heart, going up against the world.” “No.” The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. “I’m going to break the world.
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Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!
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After everything we’ve done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify.
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It is the nature of English society to do precisely that: to keep the lower classes low and raise the upper classes even higher.
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No, Mr. Marshall. I will not be browbeaten, however nicely you do it. I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.
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We can’t help being the most interesting people in the room.
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If you’re going to throw the girl to the wolves, it’s only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.
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Using facts to settle disputes. How bold of you.
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Margaret had always thought a man seduced a woman by making her aware of his charms: his body, his wealth, his kisses. How naive she had been. Ash Turner seduced her with the promise of her own self.
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You've always been your own knight, riding to your rescue. I'm just the man who came along and saw how brightly your armor shone.
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If there is one person I could have on my side against impossible odds, it’s her.
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I would never interrupt you," he told her. "I love it when you talk Sweetly to me.
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He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.
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I don’t know what I’m seeing in his eyes now. Something raw and hungry. Or maybe I’m just seeing a reflection of my own want.
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It’s a paradox. If I’m not strong enough to say no to my dad, I’m surely not strong enough to run the company. If he manages to break me down, I’ll know I can’t do it.