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Heart of the Sea (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #3) Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts
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“We all look. The lucky find.”
Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea
“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”
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“You have to believe in it to get it...”
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“What do you want?’

‘All of it.’ She laughed, but there was something brittle in the sound that broke his heart. ‘I’m selfish and greedy and want all. I want everything I can snatch up and hold, then I want to go back and get more. Why can’t I want the simple and the ordinary and the quiet, Aidan? Why can’t I be content with easy dreams?’

‘You’re so hard on yourself, mavourneen. Harder than anyone else can be. Some people want the simple and the ordinary and the quiet. It doesn’t make those who want the complicated and extraordinary and the exciting greedy or selfish. Wanting’s wanting, whatever the dream.”
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“No second chance?"

A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.”
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“All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.”
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“Algumas pessoas querem o simples, o banal e o tranquilo. Isso não faz com que as pessoas que querem o complicado, o extraordinário e o emocionante sejam gananciosas ou egoístas. Querer é querer, qualquer que seja o sonho.”
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“It’s right he’s paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.”
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“We're a land that absorbs our invaders, and makes them one of us.”
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“It goes that youth is wasted on the young, but I'm of a mind that the young waste youth.”
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“You're all right, young Magee. You're all right. Since you are, I'll tell you this. That lovely lass inside Gallagher's won't settle for less in a man than hot blood, a strong backbone, and a clever brain. I'm considering you have all three.”
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“I enjoy a good brood myself, though most often I prefer just punching something and being done with it.”
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“Cold shoulders are a predictable reaction, and predictability is tedious.”
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“Changing it without damaging it. If you cut down a tree, is what you're putting in its place worth the sacrifice?”
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“When you forget what you have for what you've lost, grieving's an indulgence.”
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“which Gwen raised her children,”
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“mood. “I could probably be”
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“Connor picked up the”
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“Todos procuram. Os afortunados encontram. (...) Os sensatos aceitam.”
Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea