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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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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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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
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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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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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This feeling, this tentative flutter in her belly - this was hers. This was sunlight on her face. It was the warmth she'd dreamed of. It was a curl of honest attraction, the first she'd experienced in years.
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One could push a pack of truths together to make one despicable falsehood.
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The beautiful thing about marriage is the right it gives me to monogamy. One man intent on dictating my whereabouts is enough, wouldn’t you think?
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He’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.
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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.
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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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It was hardly the first time she had confused him. He knew just enough to understand that he didn’t understand her.
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I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.
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It turns out, Newton is correct: Objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and twelve-year-old-boys are even more resistant to motion than regular matter.
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Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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It had been so long since anyone had made her feel fluttery. It felt like winter sunshine – something to be savored because it surely wouldn’t last.
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In droves, filling the doorway
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Money may not buy love, but it buys something like it. Not having any money makes love complicated.
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“Oh, dear.” Free looked down, fluttering her eyelashes demurely. “Is my punctuation showing once more?
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Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.
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If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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