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Her eyes glittered with amusement, or possibly malice.
I don’t mean to imply that they are cowards …,” Maurizio said, shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.
I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.”
I can't understate just how much this pair appeals to me. Not only as a well written understated fantasy romance, not only for being a B plot romance that still manages to add to the main story and complement it without feeling tacked on, but for being such a healthy, realistic, wholesme romance.
Glisselda rose on her toes and kissed me on the mouth. And then I understood why she’d been the first to flee the breakfast table; why she cared more about whether I loved Lucian than whether Lucian loved me; why she’d always been so happy to hear from me, whatever else was happening. I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn’t have the will to examine it just then.
His teeth were slightly crooked; that was the only difference between them and diamonds.
He’d asked me a question once: Are we irretrievably broken? I hadn’t known the answer, but I thought I knew it now. After most of the others had filed out of the crypt, I whispered to his grave plaque: “Never beyond repair, good heart.”
A quilt of cloud shrouded the sun,