You are usually in a different universe, she said, one that revolves about you. The Peninsula was full of rude, blustering officers who believed other people had been created to pay them homage. I alw...
It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own.He was going to new po...
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not tea...
Oh, but I do, Henrietta said earnestly. ’ Twill come between us, Anna, and I have so enjoyed having a friend.
One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
Any way fond of him. She was an accomplished flirt and by her own admission he was one of the few men not to fall to her charms. She had been forced by her very nature, perhaps, into using tactics oth...
Set out to net him. She had her godmother and his
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
Played any sort of game. Ten.
His description
She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the devil his mind meant by presenting him with that odd idea.
Crowded about the four sides of the green to watch and cheer. Viola had set out from home early in the morning looking ladylike and elegant in a muslin dress and shawl and straw bonnet, her hair in a...
But he was well aware that the future could never be relied upon to be an improvement upon the present. The future did not exist. Only the present did.
I would be more inclined to tell my children the opposite, she said. Stop being fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your exper...
Robert...When you are eighty-two years old, know that there is an eighty-year-old woman somewhere who loves you. Isn’t that a delightful thought to keep you going for the next fifty years or so?You wi...
Usual look
[...] a pearl probably does not look so very remarkable either while it is still hidden inside its shell.
You still do not quite understand, do you? she said softly. I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in love with you the first time I saw you just because you are who you are.
There is something infinitely better than happily ever after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far...
Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.
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