Don’t worry. If we sink, we’ll swim together to shore. We’ll use your bewitching chapeau as a float.The nose of the yacht dipped hard, then rose. The wing began a low howl around us.I’m not blotto, he...
Eleanore, he whispered again, tilting his head to mine, his lips skimming past my cheek, his breath in my ear. I'd wait forever for you, you know. If it mattered. If you'd care.I do care, I whispered...
He had a swift and utterly lucid vision of himself in this position in thirty-odd years. Loathsome tea, hot steam, silver spoon, and fifty-year-old Chloe seated opposite him talking about clothing, be...
He straightened. Are you ready?Yes. He nodded, his gaze traveling the length of her body, deliberately, slowly, as if to memorize her as she stood.Then may I have a kiss? he asked, unmoving. For luck?...
How good to see you, Miss Jones.That debonair tone, the friendly press of his hand upon mine. It was such a contrast to our final moments in the cottage that I couldn’t help but smirk.Thank you for ha...
How long have you known about him? I asked Jesse, using my free hand to gesture toward his guest.Forever. Nearly as long as I did about you.God, Jesse. Why didn’t you say anything?He was a shadow of y...
You snore.
I confess, as much as I enjoy you in breeches, you hold up that gown rather well.She studied him through the eyeholes. You truly stopped trying to be charming.You're the most ravishing creature in th...
I didn’t think students were allowed below the main floor. I knew the kitchens were there, as were most of the servants’ quarters; the professors and Mrs. Westcliffe had their own aboveground wing on...
Zane gestured to the table.Did you see what I brun-brought?She shook her head, turning back to the papers. I've read these.Not that one. Nipped it from The Spotted Dog. Last week's news, but I thought...
I hate it here. I hate everyone here. I hate that I am so different. I love it here and I want to belong and I know that I never will.
I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow.
I love you. At your best and your worst, I love you. Paris or Darkfrith. Here, there, and everywhere, I love you.
I pulled at the knot again and heard threads begin to pop.Allow me, Miss Jones, said Armand, right at my back.There was no gracious way to refuse him. Not with Mrs. Westcliffe there, too.I exhaled and...
I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.
I think the word is much too small to encompass the magnitude of all it defines. For me, right then, meant that everything within me-my organs, my spirit, my hope-plunged down into a place of utter...
I thought that ground fire couldn’t reach the zeppelins, I said. I thought that guns on the ground didn’t have the range.Eleanore. Do you imagine for one particle of one second that he was thinking cl...
I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that,...
I wasn’t even certain if my wings were meant for flight. I hadn’t exactly had any luck with it the one time I’d tried.I could glide, though. Probably.Maybe.Should worse come to worst, I could smoke up...
I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you.
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