Julie Anne Long Quotes
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Julie Anne Long Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But is not one a result of the other?" she asked. "Love and loyalty? I cannot see how could you prefer one to the other.
Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It's not counted among the deadly sins, you know.
It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.
Did that kiss nearly destroy the memory of all other kisses, and become the benchmark against which all future kisses would be measured?
He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger.
I can only think god is responsible for passion,for god gives us bodies with which to express it and heart in which to hold it
Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances ... " He paused. " ... are often deceiving.
And for a moment he simply held her and she held onto him.
It might have been the most perfect moment of his life so far.
It might have been the most perfect moment of his life so far.
Lovely as a spring day but not the sort to make one envious, any more than one would envy the sun its ability to shine.
But she bravely kept her eyes open; she was both lost and found in the soft, burning depths of his eyes.
Good God. He doesn't know me at *all*.
How crushing.
How illuminating.
How ... potentially very useful.
How crushing.
How illuminating.
How ... potentially very useful.
We think we're so clever. And yet we're always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.
And I served as an officer in the army."
"Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.
"Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.
He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.
We all have foibles, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder oftentimes gets it wrong.
Because he spoke to her the way no one else had ever spoken to her, which meant he saw her in a way no one else saw her.
Fallen woman." The term made a sort of poetic sense. Once the fall started, it seemed it never stopped.
The stars are particularly spectacular tonight, don't you think? Dazzling. As if they've all had a good rinsing from the storm.
The question remains ... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?"
"I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.
"I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.
He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.
Some of us walk about with the burden of old wounds. What must it be like to have the burden of ... healing?
Ah, Lyon: the Achilles' heel of this family. She had forgotten about Lyon, and about disappearing Redmonds.
They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female
The wrong man could have brought it all crashing down," she told him. "A different man might have collapsed under the weight of the responsibility.
The brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him]
The cheek of the man. She liked cheek. She liked a man who spoke to her as if she was a person, an equal as if she were in on the joke.
You wouldn't consider riding me, would you?' he asked politely.
'You've lovely manners, she purred. 'But of course.
'You've lovely manners, she purred. 'But of course.
Use it all you want. Marry him. He'll never really be yours, and you'll never know it.
Or maybe you will.
Or maybe you will.
He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.
A girl could forget her precise location in the universe when a man looked at her with eyes like those.
Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked.
He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.