Lie still, it said. If you do not rise, do not move, nothing can hurt you. Simply do nothing, say nothing, be nowhere.
Stay. I nearly asked to see her again. Just to talk, I wanted to say. To talk to someone who enjoys listening.
Greed can destroy so much, Sir Montague nodded.
Well as street vendors crying their wares. The mob had
Life is long, my young friend. Do not make it more difficult than it already has to be.
Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened
Hmm, I said. Nuisance at least sounded affectionate. My wife had been alternately terrified of or furious with me.
Things could crawl at you out of the dark and hurt you again and again. The past did not always stay dead.
Some of us were born to work and others to keep the devil amused.
Sebastian
Poetry can be tedious. Too many words to say a simple thing.
Marianne had learned to live by her wits, and she took a severe and cynical view of the world.
I was torn between anger and amusement.
I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.
I also thought about Lady Breckenridge. After a heartbreak last year, I was not in the mood to fall in love with another lady, but Lady Breckenridge had demanded nothing of me.
A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?
You do not rush to obey those who seek to command you. Your independence makes people puzzle over you.
When one is lonely, one does foolish things.
I happened to like the happy ending. Life was sad enough; no need to rush to the theatre to witness more tragedy.
Grenville, brandy glass in hand, cool sangfroid in place, greeted us with a nod. Lord Gillis, may I present my friend, Captain Gabriel Lacey. Captain Lacey, Lord Gillis.