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deuce
Haha deuce…
“They can all go hang.
New insult unlocked.
“Never apologize to women. It only confirms that you were wrong, and incenses them further.”
“It’s like conversing with a lampshade.”
“Enough to recognize a wicked one when I see him.” “I doubt you can see much of anything through this veil.”
Although she was not conventionally beautiful, she was so original that it rendered the question of beauty inconsequential.
“No, he keeps the schedule of a cat. Long hours of slumber interrupted by brief periods of self-grooming.”
He's so real for that.
“Small talk is a crashing bore.”
“Regardless, people will expect a man of your position to be accomplished at it.”
I love her sm
Have pity, you savage mongrels!”
Men smh
We all thought him invincible.”
“you and the wench can leave by way of the plank.”
Sometimes one must love something before it becomes lovable.”
“Forgive me—I seem to have become accidentally lucid.”
“I would enjoy beginning the day with killing something.”
“Do you ever enter a room the ordinary way?” he asked curtly, “or is it your usual habit to slink past the threshold and pop up like a jack-in-the-box?”
He had to restrain himself from rubbing his hands together in villainous glee.
“I’m hardly some limp-wristed fop, madam.”
“I hope you realize that all the selfish people are safe and dry at home.”
“Listen, my little watering pot,
Omg.
Dear God . . . he wanted her beyond decency.
No one had ever sought comfort from him before, and the act of giving it had felt more unspeakably intimate than the most torrid sexual encounter.
“It isn’t the job that drives them mad,” West said. “It’s the mercury solution they use to smooth the felt. After repeated exposure, it addles the brain. Hence the term ‘mad as a hatter.’ ”
I’ll confess, I never knew that the company of innocent girls could be so amusing.”
This is js so funny to me
They would make each other exceedingly unhappy.” “Of course they would. It’s marriage.”
“I’m the Earl of Trenear,”
Anything was worth having her. Anything.
But the cleverest people sometimes caused the worst trouble for themselves.
Tell Lord Trenear that I was too much of a bitch to tolerate.
Devon Ravenel, wet and naked,
“You always have my attention.”
But she would belong to Devon last.
He could see tiny rays in the light brown irises, like gold threads.
knowing that for the rest of his life, a single breath of a rose would bring him back to this moment.
My brother, he thought, is excited over farming equipment.
“The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior,”
Why was he touching her? Why was she allowing it?
“Touch her and I’ll kill you,” he snarled.
why are we snarling.
He would defy all the hells that ever were to stay with her.
“I know many scientific facts about the human heart—not the least of which is that it’s far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.”
“My life . . . didn’t pass before my eyes. All I saw was you.”
“The last moment, I thought . . . I would die wanting you.”
I thought I would die wanting you.
“Let me help you, love.”
“Then faint.”
She was more beautiful than starlight, and just as unattainable.
Someday, by God, people would beg to marry Winterbornes.
He was still puzzled over Kathleen’s refusal to even consider an affair with him.
“You ride beautifully. Like a goddess.”
“No one but you could ride him as if he had wings.”
