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I believe a woman cannot run an Institute; women do not think with logic and discretion but with the emotions of the heart. I have no doubt that Charlotte is a good and decent woman, but a man would not have been fooled by a flimsy spy like Nathaniel Gray—”
Lol how sad men (and even some women) still think this way
“If he had—if I were a man—would you have treated me as you just did?”
ALEXA PLAY THE MAN BY TAYLOR SWIFT
“And it isn’t Charlotte the Starkweathers can’t stand, Jem. It’s her father.” “Sins of the fathers,” said Jem. “They’re not inclined to like any Fairchild, or anyone associated with one.
WAIT IS VALETINE A STARKWEATHER
“I haven’t abandoned hope,” he said. “I just hope for different things than you do, Tessa Gray.”
He half-closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them, he was smiling crookedly. “James,” he said. “Ordinarily only Will calls me that.” “I’m sorry—” “No. Don’t be. I like the sound of it on your lips.” Lips.
There was a crack, like the sound of a rifle shot, and Gabriel fell silent. Sophie had slapped him across the face.
QUEEN
“No,” he said. “Let me touch you first. I have wanted . . .” She did not say no. Instead she stood, wide-eyed, gazing up at him as his fingertips traced her temples, then her cheekbones, then—softly despite their rough calluses—outlined the shape of her mouth as if he meant to commit it to memory. The gesture made her heart spin like a top inside her chest. His eyes remained fixed on her, as dark as the bottom of the ocean, wondering, dazed with discovery.
Girls don't want spice they want THIS
He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. “I have wanted to do this,” he said, “every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. But you know that. You must know. Don’t you?”
