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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.

After everything we've done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify.

Gray! No, anything but gray. Gray is nothing but a white that can't make up its mind.

He snorted. "Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?"
"Of course I am." She smiled at him. "I thought it would put you at ease.

He'd wanted to make her into nothing because that's what he'd done to himself.

She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.

She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.

Are you ... uh ... Mr ... .uh ... " "Yes," he replied, because he answered to Mr. Uh almost as often as he did to his own name. "This

The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.

Does anyone ever get the best of you?" "Yes," she returned, "but only when I choose to give it to them.

Her kiss didn't sweep away the dark anguish he felt in his heart. Instead, it embraced it. It acknowledged it.

This was disapproval with a bite.

And she'd discovered she wasn't empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.

Oh, thank God. It wasn't the penis talk.

The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.

in droves, filling the doorway,

I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.

You see so many surprising things and you think they're obvious.

Work your way on to number twelve," she snapped. "Number eleven wants nothing more to do with you.

Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

She had taken London by storm - which was to say, as with any good storm, some people stayed indoors when they saw her coming.

Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it's selfish to do so.

But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.

I believe," he said, "that there is a special place in hell for those who steal truth. And that man - whoever he is - I hope he is burning there.

Sir Mark Turner," he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

But bright. So bright. It's a shame you're so impossible, Miss Fairfield, because otherwise, I think I would try for you.

I do believe you would have cut the rope.

M is for Me. I'm yours, even when you make mistakes.

Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don't get trampled. So

Damn you, knowledge! Ruining everything good, once again. Learning things is most inconvenient.

There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.

I hate your future wife," she said simply.
"At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself.

Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?

The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you. I

You've always been your own knight, riding to your rescue. I'm just the man who came along and saw how brightly your armor shone.

His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.

If you're going to throw the girl to the wolves, it's only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.

I am small," she said, "but mighty.

Using facts to settle disputes. How bold of you.

I'm afraid I might make a fool of myself over him. I'm not even sure he would notice if I did.

Is it something I said?" Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all.

Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.

Having you as a friend wasn't second prize. It wasn't something to chafe against. It was an honor.

Don't hide it on my account," he growled. "You have the most damnably beautiful punctuation that I have ever seen. You make a man feel greedy.

Best not to dream, dear. If you don't, there's nothing that can be taken from you.

Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.

In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.

It's called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.

She walked away from him with swift, sure strides, as if she knew her destination. As if it had nothing to do with him.

Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.

We can't help being the most interesting people in the room.

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

He'd been lying to himself all these months.
He WAS in love with her. And he had no idea what to do about it.

Good thing he's not your boyfriend, though, Tina. He's so skinny, I think a condom would pop right off.

Distressed sighs!" Robert protested. "Not once did I stoop to distressed sighs! I might have emitted a manly huff of oppression.

A ninnyhammer," Jane said, "sounds like a magic hammer. One that I can use to smite ninnies. I have a great need for one of those.

When someone falls," Mark said, "you don't throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It's the Christian thing to do.

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

I will not be browbeaten, however nicely you do it. I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.

When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

He wasn't sure what he was saying, either, but he felt as if he were slipping into some dangerous world - one where answers ceased to be easy.

He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.

In this world, you're either playing the game or you're a pawn on the board.

He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.

Then I'll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.

Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.

He'd fallen a little bit in love with her the moment she'd said his name as if it had value.

Truth, but truth twisted to sting.

Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?

It had been so long since anyone had made her feel fluttery. It felt like winter sunshine - something to be savored because it surely wouldn't last.

That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.

Maybe that's what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

She received his note not two minutes later. She opened it, her heart pounding. But there were only two words on the paper. Marry me.

He wanted her to lift her head at this moment. He wanted her to look him in the eyes and realize that he loved her. He wanted her to love him back.

He'd fashioned himself into one hard edge. He was all blade and no handle. If she held him close, she'd risk being cut.

I knew the instant Margaret spoke that she intended to use me as a weapon. What you fail to understand is this: I am her weapon to use.

One could push a pack of truths together to make one despicable falsehood.

You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.

I lie, I forge I blackmail." Edward shrugged. "But cheating at cards? I'd never stoop so low."

"Good to know you have some principles.

One mustn't justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

Oh, dear." Free looked down, fluttering her eyelashes demurely. "Is my punctuation showing once more?

What part of your duty am I?"
He squeezed her hand. "You're the ray of sun at the center of the storm.

We don't need wealth. We don't need riches. We Lanes just believe harder than everyone else, and good things come to us.

It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.

What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.

I would call him an ordinary man, but, well."
Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement.

Farleigh. I fear that I'd break something irreplaceable." She swallowed. "Sir Mark." He reached out one hand again, almost to her face,

You can't eat justice.

You anchor me without holding me down. You frighten me without threatening my future. You're unflinchingly devoted. I love you.

He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.

Family isn't a matter of history. Or biology," he said softly. "It's a matter of choice.

A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.

If you were a shadowy, anonymous figure, it made sense to pretend everything had gone according to some diabolical plan. Never mind if it hadn't.

Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.

Do Chinese dragons even eat people?" "She lives in the Bay Area," I say severely. "She eats a Westernized diet.

Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.

Don't say my name like that. Please, Your Grace. If you have any care for me at all - pretend to flirt. But don't actually do it.

I hate having second thoughts," he muttered. "Necessary, for second chances," Dalrymple put in.