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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
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— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: austen, collins, humor, jane, mr

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"She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else..."
— Julia Quinn (Romancing Mister Bridgerton)

tags: born, bridgerton, colin, love, mr, penelope, romancing

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"I'd rather be seduced than comforted."
— Judith Rossner

tags: for, goodbar, looking, mr

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"After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue."
— Susanna Clarke

tags: -, jonathan, mr, norrell, strange

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"They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again."
— Jane Austen

tags: bennet, darcy, elizabeth, mr, parting, prejudice, pride

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"She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet."
— Jane Austen

tags: bennet, darcy, elizabeth, mr, prejudice, pride

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"She felt as though she'd acquiesced in her own rape ..."
— Judith Rossner

tags: for, goodbar, looking, mr

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" "can i turn into a bat" said daren "no that's bull sh*t" said mr crepsley"
— Darren Shan

tags: cirque, crepsley, daren, du, freak, mr

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"I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking."
— Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)

tags: bittersweet, broken, heart, mr, powerful, rejection, simple, stevens

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