I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
It was delicate and pretty and always semifashionable because it had never been ultrafashionable.
The wind was cold and cut into her even though it was at her back, but she loved the wild sound and the salt smell of it and the deepened sense of solitude it brought.
What do you not have, Lord Hardford? she asked. For no one has everything, you know, or even nearly everything.
Besides, he said, I had another reason for coming, one that will delight you, I believe, as you have been pestering me for years. I wanted you to meet Miss Goddard, the lady I plan one day soon, when...
It sounded very shallow put that way.Did it matter? Sometimes the human spirit needed the shallows. Sunshine danced on the shallows but was absorbed beyond trace by the depths.
There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.
There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life.
Leave love to take its course.
Life has kicked us in the teeth, Abby, and I am about to kick back. Hard.
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come b...
Some people look forward to going to heaven after they die, he said. For years after I purchased it, Rose Cottage was the earthly heaven to which I aspired.
She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if her soul had no been shattered long ago. She rather thought she might have. But a heart a...
I can see why men do not take up knitting and such. They would never be able to pluck up the courage to go and get what they needed.
The ladies perhaps had the advantage in the sheer size of
Love does not involve emotions, then? he asked her with a smile.It is not ruled by them, she told him. Love is liking and companionship and respect and trust. Love does not dominate or try to possess....
Love does not deck the beloved in chains. It just is.
It is just that . . . I think you are worth knowing, though I cannot be sure.
Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[...]
Since when had shabby men started to look impossibly attractive when immaculately tailored ones merely looked ... well, immaculately tailored? Though it was not shabby exactly, was it, but a certain...
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