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""Dear God, she thought suddenly. Had it only been that morning that she'd lost her innocence" And she'd lost it twice more since then already?" -- I don't know about you, but I'm not feeling very comfortable with the heroine and hero having had..er...relations 3 times by 25% of the book! They had just met! And she was disguised as a boy. In the span of one day, he took her virginity!!!" — Mar 19, 2014 04:59PM
""Dear God, she thought suddenly. Had it only been that morning that she'd lost her innocence" And she'd lost it twice more since then already?" -- I don't know about you, but I'm not feeling very comfortable with the heroine and hero having had..er...relations 3 times by 25% of the book! They had just met! And she was disguised as a boy. In the span of one day, he took her virginity!!!" — Mar 19, 2014 04:59PM
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""A married woman may cuckold her husband and take her pleasure where she will, but a spinster must live like a nun." - bravo, dear heroine! If this hero doesn't get off his high horse in the next 200 pages I will never recommend this book." — Jul 24, 2015 02:55PM
""A married woman may cuckold her husband and take her pleasure where she will, but a spinster must live like a nun." - bravo, dear heroine! If this hero doesn't get off his high horse in the next 200 pages I will never recommend this book." — Jul 24, 2015 02:55PM

“Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.”
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“Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not enough. This is a painful realization so often they hide behind righteous arrogance.”
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“I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re just an available s-source of heat.”
“So you say,” St. Vincent replied lazily, tucking the quilt more tightly around them both.
“However, during the past quarter hour you’ve been fondling parts of my anatomy that no one’s ever dared to touch before.”
“I v-very much doubt that.” She burrowed even further into the depths of his coat, and added in a muffled voice, “You’ve probably been h-handled more than a hamper at Fortnum and Mason.”
― Devil in Winter
“So you say,” St. Vincent replied lazily, tucking the quilt more tightly around them both.
“However, during the past quarter hour you’ve been fondling parts of my anatomy that no one’s ever dared to touch before.”
“I v-very much doubt that.” She burrowed even further into the depths of his coat, and added in a muffled voice, “You’ve probably been h-handled more than a hamper at Fortnum and Mason.”
― Devil in Winter

“...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.”
― Sodom and Gomorrah
― Sodom and Gomorrah

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