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deigned
patrician
parley
agrarian
pedants
sycophants
beware love, especially with the wrong man.
let them out. Survival is not unheard of. We are not cruel.
inculcated
A mortal man’s strength had limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork—for every caress that sent a woman’s head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.
obsequiousness.
It taught me to do whatever was necessary to get what I wanted, you evil bitch.
alacrity
Beba?”
obfuscation.
ignominy,
Every Darre woman is taught to deal with such behavior from men. It is an animal trick that they use, like dogs ruffling their fur and growling. Only rarely is there actual threat behind it, and a woman’s strength lies in discerning when the threat is real and when it is just hair and noise. For now the threat was not real, but that could change.
caul
complicit.
capitulation.”
it’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.
usurer?”
jocularity,
scintillated
garrulous,
(encaustic
pragmatism
proselytizing,
levity
sophistry.
I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
filigreed
cathartic
attenuated
Hatred does not exclude desire.”
love does not mandate forgiveness.”
surcease
Austere,
adage
inimical
anathema
“It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy.
sibilant