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Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.

What do you do when you despair, and there isn't an August Rain to drown your sorrow?

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

Now he could work her likeness into any story of his choosing. Now he could fight dragons for her. And now he could kiss her again.

They all three threw up shields at the same time, Titus for Iolanthe, Iolanthe for Titus, and Lady Wintervale for them both.

There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.

The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But
now you've become less brittle.

Some turn the soil and plant seedlings. We garden with words and nurture affinity.

She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

And that is why You do not trifle with the Master of the Domain.

Then he made love to her not only as if he had never experienced lovemaking before, but no one had.

Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear.

I like money very well. It is the means to independence and authority.

She felt as if she'd been hugging puppies all day.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

One could say lightning is the marriage of fire and air." "One could say mud is the marriage of water and earth," he said dismissively.

Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.

I love everything about her, including her talent for breaking my heart.

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

There was an intimate connection between them, as if they'd known each other always. They were not strangers; they'd merely never met before.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

He did not look like an archangel - if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.

As long as I live and breathe, I will be with you.

a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.

It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.

Are you sure? I might take it as permission to further push my company on you.

So . . . I don't trust you and you don't understand me." He laughed despite himself. "No wonder we get along so well.

Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Rain came down in sheets. It had been a miserable spring. Already he despaired of ever again walking under an unclouded sky.

And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here. Windham

I always think I cannot love you more if I tried, but I always do.

Alas, would that it were as easy to appease the heart as it is to satisfy the stomach.

What cricket? Grasshopper?

A messy business, rescuing princes.

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, Lady
Tremaine.

If all I have to do is remain awake to be considered romantic, than I can promise you a great deal of romance in our marriage.

What is it?" she mumbled.
"Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.

But sometimes the males of the species brought home shiny, beautiful things,
with hope burning in their hearts.

If she hadn't been at peace, then at least she
wasn't at war with herself.

You can live forever for me.

He was silent. She hoped she'd injured his feelings - assuming he had feelings to injure in the first place.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

Nothing," he said. "Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.

Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.

You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.

Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him.
And sometimes they don't.

Lexington, met the man who would inspire four long years of unrequited love on her part, she was thinking about fossils. She didn't have any

You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the
stars are filled with your silence.

While I breathe, I hope,

It was the beginning of the end.
Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.
- Leo

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

How do you find the grace to face
the shadows?

I live for you, and you alone.

What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She

To the beginning of the rest of our lives.

- Leo

Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful.
And in the end, so catastrophically flawed.

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?

But you do not need to worry, Cooper. What is mine, I keep.

I love you. I will love you until the end of the world.

He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"
"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.

He'd gone into their marriage determined that she would never be alone again. In the end,
she'd made him as alone in the world as she.

That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.

If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.

You have been all my moments of grace.

A reflection of
their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories.

I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn't one of those rare instances.

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

Or perhaps I've already despaired - and decided that while despair is fine as an occasional indulgence, it can't be served three times a day.

We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.

The hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the heroine. Time for moody angst!

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.

I will keep you safe, he murmured. He meant it. As long as he was safe, she was safe. But how long would he remain safe?

So . . . you want me to fall in love with you, while you play kissing games with another girl?

Friendship is untenable for people in our position.