Sicily

“Sometimes it is the most vital thing in the world to be selfish...I don't see what use we can be to others if we must deny our own most fundamental selves. We all have the right to be recognized for who we are.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out. He never stopped loving her, even those times when he felt deeply hurt and betrayed by her, even in that bad year when they talked about separating, he’d just gone along with it, waiting for her to come back to him, thanking God and his dad up above each time she did.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“I would say"—he shaped the words close to her mouth, as if each of them was its own kiss, a private prayer—"I love you as a man loves a woman, but we both know that love is not bound by such narrow terms. So instead let me simply tell you that I love you. I love you with the unfading flame of my friendship. With every drop of ardour in my blood. I love you with my soul, as some reserve their faith for absent gods. I love you as I believe in what is right and hope for what is good. I love you with everything I am and ever was—and if you will only let me, with every day that comes, and every self that I could ever be.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke