Why would forgiveness be of any value if it were reserved only for forgivable offenses?
Miss Blanche Heyward, opera dancer, would have made a superlative drill sergeant if she had just been a man.
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a l...
Eunice Goddard, he said, all pretense of sleepiness gone from his eyes, will you marry me? I have no flowery speech prepared and would feel remarkably idiotic delivering it even if I had. Will you jus...
He did not immediately answer. Their eyes locked and neither looked away. Camille swallowed as he pushed away from the counter and came toward her. He set one hand on the table beside hers and the oth...
I believe contempt says more about the person giving it than the one receiving. It demeans what ought to be righteous punishment.
I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.
If there was magic alive in this world, Julian thought after the first couple of minutes, it was surely present in the waltz danced with someone one loved more than life itself.
If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of doing. You would never become a better man than what you started out being. P'raps this is w...
Love is wanting to be with someone all the time.It is accepting the other person with all good qualities and bad and not wanting to change any of them. It is wanting to give affection and approval and...
She wanted so badly to believe him. She sat on the edge of her bed and closed her eyes. And she realized what had been happening to her over the past weeks. He had been turning—so gradually that she h...
Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?
Sometimes she felt that her heart would ssurely break. But she knew that hearts did not literally break because their owners were unhappy - and foolish. How dreadfully foolish she had been. Yet she cl...
That was the heart of the difference, she thought. In her world she had learned to . Other people seemed to gain their sense of identity and worth from
Viscount Darleigh was charming as well as handsome, and he had the uncanny ability to look in the direction of the person who was speaking almost as if he could see that person. He moved about with th...
Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?
For all other women. He
Pleased
Was, licking
And a strong man, she said. Strong enough to be vulnerable, to take risks, to be honest even when honesty might expose him to ridicule or rejection. And someone who would put himself at the center of...
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