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sisters. It is a rather noisy household. I suppose that’s what bothers me most about Gaétan’s home: It’s awfully quiet. You could hear a pin fall in the hallway.”
Foreshadowing?
possible?” “Must everyone live in Loisail?” he asked, and his voice was tinged with this delightful sarcasm she found refreshing.
O
“It is not a matter of what you like. As for this ‘gentleman,’ he has not sent a card and you should not have invited him,” Valérie said. She started walking and hoped Antonina would leave it at that.
Valerie is annoying
“Antonina, you forget your manners,” Valérie said as she walked in. “It’s not polite to ask those questions.”
Oh here she goes again
She had not changed. He knew she
Ok there is something in the past between hector and valerie
“There are plenty of shining examples in the world that demonstrate love need not be a condition of a successful marriage. You might agree on this point.”
True
she was by nature a jealous, possessive creature. She had to have every bit of everything, and that included every bit of everyone.
Oic
She preferred to classify herself as one of these new wonders.
I aspire to have this confidence
a chance to talk,” Nina complained.
“Then let me make friends. Everyone Valérie introduces me to despises me.” She strived
“I’ve had the ability since I was a baby. The maids claim I’d push dishes off the table without touching them before I had even learned how to speak. In the countryside, they say this means the spirit is restless. Your soul is trying to escape your body. Other times, they say you
It's telekinesis
You ought to spend more time with people who are more animated than me, younger and lively. I am like a rickety, haunted house, Miss Beaulieu.
Pretty sentence
Hector had spent so many years being the man who loved Valérie that he could not conceive of becoming anything else. She was a goddess at whose feet he worshipped, and to cease in his adoration of her would imply he had spent a decade following a false idol.
Obsesses
“Pardon me, but Antonina is a true lady, unlike some others who put on airs and merely pretend to be gentlewomen,” he affirmed, his eyes firmly set on the blond woman, the barb undeniable and as sharp
Savage
“Why do they call it the Philosophers Club?” “After a few drinks, all men become philosophers.”
Yeah men and their ego
When she had been handed the first two boxes, she had not opened them, but at the third, driven by her natural curiosity, she’d finally unveiled their contents and remained mutely staring at the creatures.
I get it
sick of people lying to me,” she blurted. “People keep lying to me, and if what you want is to toy with me for an hour or two, please pick someone else. I thought you might be a friend.”
Nina:(
was one of the most irritating bits of Antonina, the knowledge that her cousin would not force her into a marriage, like a parcel to be sold at the market. Valérie
As it should
Maybe he won’t even count the seed pearls he gifts her, Valérie thought bitterly.
I started understand why valerie act like this but
She looked at him carefully, and saw a man. Not the romantic notion of a man she’d glimpsed before, her vision colored with memories of books and plays. A man, flawed and sad, who’d hurt her once, but whom she nonetheless esteemed. She saw, too, his genuine regret and the honest emotion lurking in his eyes.
Pretty sentence
Nina had never had much appreciation for talks of damnation and sins. She existed, and had always existed, in a rather untamed state, which was facilitated by her family, who confused her intellectual inclinations with a wholesome disposition. They
I know how it feels
I can already feel you magnetized by my orbit.”
Maksud lo?
If it was a lie, was it so bad? If love was the terrible misery coursing through her veins and nothing but vain longing, perhaps it was not so wonderful as she had presumed.
True
Valérie mentally corrected herself—she shared a past with Hector. Antonina had experienced nothing except an illusion.
Gurl
“All we ultimately have to do is believe. We focus our mind on one single point, one single purpose, and we push. We grasp. We manipulate wood and glass and iron. However, the greatest trick is the belief. Belief is what makes it real.
Hmm
will inflict no lasting harm. Most duels don’t end in death, I’ve told you
Not love at first sight, because those fancies were best left for books and songs, but she had extended her hand and invited him to follow her into a dance, and he had found after a few steps that though he had never danced it before, he did not want to stop.
True
