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“My husband has a saying about risk taking: ‘God is good—but never dance in a small boat.’”
“Just because you can look a man in the eyes when you lie doesn’t mean you’ve fooled him.”
“One more toast: Neque semper arcum tendit Apollo.” They drank again. “What does that mean?” Garrett asked. “‘Not even Apollo keeps his bow drawn all the time.’”
“Our existence, even our intellect, hangs upon love—without it, we would be no more than stock and stones.”
“Don’t mistake softness for weakness. Only a strong man can be soft with a woman.”
geese, and she told me they had a capacity for attachment and grief that rivaled humans. They mated for life, she said. If a goose was injured, the gander would stay with her even if the rest of the flock was flying south. When one of a mated pair died, the other would lose its appetite and go off to mourn in solitude.”
he began to kiss her as if the world were about to end. For him, it was.
When you meet the right man, the list of things you would never do suddenly becomes much shorter.
He chose us because he knew we would do anything, no matter how vile, to win his approval. But I’ve had enough of it. ’Tis not a job, but a deal with the devil. I’m not a well-read man, but I have the impression those never turn out well.”
as long as I’m on this earth, I’ll want to be wherever you are.”
“There was no need to leave a lamp burning in your room,” he whispered. “I could find you anywhere, in daylight or darkness.”
“Your patients all have four legs. H-he only has two.” “Which means he’ll be half the trouble,” West said reasonably.
“Our existence, even our intellect, hangs upon love—without it, we would be no more than stock and stones.”
“The love I have for you—I feel it, right here. My heart beats faster for you all on its own. It aches when we’re apart. Nothing tells it to do that.”
Dear old Papa was never one to let rational conversation get in the way of his fists.”
God help me, I’m going to protect my child from my own worst instincts. I’m going to block every violent, selfish impulse that was instilled in me. It won’t be easy. But I’ll be damned if I turn out a son who’s exactly like the father I hated.’”
No man is entitled to your blind obedience, no matter what he’s done for you. Furthermore, you don’t have to be your father’s son, especially if your father happens to be an amoral arse who’s hatching plots to kill people.”
