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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.
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We're friends...And what that means is this: I won't let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop it.
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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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“You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
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There was no point in feeling hurt simply because a man she refused to want didn't want her back.
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“Don’t answer, Marshall. Work it through your principles.” Bradenton smiled. “But in the end, we all know how this will work out. It’s one annoying girl against your entire future. Against the future of voting rights.
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There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.
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One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.
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If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know it.
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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Robert turned to the man standing beside him. “Oliver,” he said, “how did you ever come to the conclusion that I was a worthwhile human being?” Oliver took off his glasses and cleaned them with a handkerchief. “What makes you think I did?
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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
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“I hate your future wife," she said simply. At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself.
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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.
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I thought I had to prove myself with money and accomplishments. But those will always ring hollow. They will never be enough. I want to be somebody. Let me be your husband. Let me be the father of your child - of all your children.
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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my son to be more.
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I don’t know if I can explain why I find this car so frightening. It’s powerful. It’s fast. I could go sixty and not even notice, and that’s the problem. I feel like I should notice having power like this. Like if I ever stop noticing, I’ll lose something important.
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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.
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