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Oh dear God, I’m dead but I’m awake.”
Just as I had already assumed everything you were saying was not… though you did say it prettily, I must admit.
On the third day both men knew better than to stroll by that corner again, or speak together at all. A seed, once planted, must ripen, and no one ever managed a minuet by getting ahead of the beat.
When in doubt, smile.
do your job, tell them what they want to hear, and get out.
she knew she had been wrong to place her pride above his knowledge.
You were afraid of the dragons, of course you were—we didn’t raise any idiots, your father and I. But there was something else, too, something else…. Wasn’t there?”
You won’t be a valet—you’ll be a man who knows how to be a valet.
“Don’t be killed. Do you think you could manage that for me?”