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He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.
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Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.
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She felt like a juggler tossing torches into the air. The circus-master kept throwing more in. Sooner or later, one would fall, and the life she'd built would burn to cinders.
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It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.
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For everyone who has carried water in thimbles and teaspoons throughout the centuries. And for all those who continue to do so. For as many centuries as it takes.
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In this world, you’re either playing the game or you’re a pawn on the board.
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Sebastian will never fight wars, but it's because of people like him that the rest of us don't have to fight as many of them. He makes everyone around him more than what they are.
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God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.
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People always claimed to want such things when they faced the harsh light of judgment. With the prospect of punishment looming over their heads, they would promise anything.
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“Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?
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She gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it. But he didn’t - not one bit.
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My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.
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You really shouldn’t blame men for everything.” “No, just the ninety-eight percent of society’s ills they’re responsible for.
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He’d fallen a little bit in love with her the moment she’d said his name as if it had value.
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I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.
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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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We don’t need wealth. We don’t need riches. We Lanes just believe harder than everyone else, and good things come to us.
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One could push a pack of truths together to make one despicable falsehood.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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He couldn't bring himself to look directly at her. Her gown was the color of daylight just before sunset; if he looked at her too long, he feared he might be left blind once she was gone.
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Forty-nine is extremely young. If forty-nine is not young, that would make me old, and I am not old. I have reached the age of maturity to which all humans must particularly aspire; to dismiss this pinnacle of perfection as old age is to demean all of humankind.
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“Let me take you home,” he said. “I can make my own way.” “I know. Let me take you anyway.”
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“Ah, the rule that says that women aren’t allowed to be intelligent.” He brushed a kiss against her forehead. “Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it’s selfish to do so.
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