“Because that’s what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved.” — Julie Anne Long Fury Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't ask questions when you know at heart you'd prefer not to hear the answers.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Good God. He doesn't know me at *all*. How crushing. How illuminating. How ... potentially very useful.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.” — Julie Anne Long Directness Copy Share Image
“It’s just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.” — Julie Anne Long Awkwardness Copy Share Image
“Irony, when delivered cold and shaved very, very fine, could sound like amusement.” — Julie Anne Long Irony Copy Share Image
“But is not one a result of the other?” she asked. “Love and loyalty? I cannot see how could you prefer one… — Julie Anne Long Love Copy Share Image
“I couldn't see it because you are my heart, damn you! And how can I see my own heart if it's beating… — Julie Anne Long Heart Copy Share Image
“Lyon Redmond was either a man on a pilgrimage in search of salvation, or a man out to burn on the pyre… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Oh, God. She’d now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She’d never had to improvise so much in her… — Julie Anne Long Entire life Copy Share Image
“the brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Even cliffs are vulnerable, Captain Eversea, she thought. The sea gets at them, eventually, reshaping them inexorably, giving them no choice at… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy… — Julie Anne Long Men Copy Share Image
“Beautiful. Jules once thought he’d understood what the word meant. He now believed it overused. Some word needed to be kept in… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“It’s…” She couldn’t finish. “Don’t try, Miss Redmond,” he agreed, shading his eyes. “There are honestly no suitable words, so we shall… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“No, Kinkade,” Chase said thoughtfully. “I don’t think a woman can destroy you. You can’t be destroyed because…there’s nothing to destroy. I… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“What happens next?" she whispered. Connor turned to her and smiled faintly. Always a question, that was Rebecca. There's more?" he said… — Julie Anne Long Humor Copy Share Image
“Jules was frozen with incredulity. In truth, he could not speak. He was touched by the display of honor in two country… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Rhys told himself that everything came with a price. He’d made a difficult choice years ago to regain all he had, and… — Julie Anne Long Choices Copy Share Image
“MEEEEE!” it bellowed. She jumped back again, dropping the basket lid. What the devil? She opened it again, and looked down at… — Julie Anne Long Cats Copy Share Image
“Let’s say then you’ve made the decision to tear the life you know asunder in order to be with this person you… — Julie Anne Long Life Copy Share Image
“Don’t be tedious, Lavay. If it’s so necessary for you to know,” he said ungraciously. “She won a contest.” There was a… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“No one moved. No one spoke. They seemed be riveted by whatever it was they saw in his eyes. “Place me like… — Julie Anne Long Death Copy Share Image
“He began to stand, and saw Lyon stiffen, poised to do whatever he needed to do. He, like Lyon, could throw himself… — Julie Anne Long Dear lord Copy Share Image
“Which was why he reflexively turned when a flash of iridescence caught his eye. His first thought was: Morpho rhetenor Helena. The… — Julie Anne Long Butterfly Copy Share Image
“Why are you holding a knife?” he asked, mimicking her tone. Shock blurred her vision. The ease had gone out of his… — Julie Anne Long Dreams Copy Share Image
“Moreover,' he mused relentlessly, 'I think that you'll be dreaming of me perhaps until the day you die.' She clapped her book… — Julie Anne Long Books Copy Share Image
“He supposed it would be considered pastoral-there were trees clustered in a meadow, with two muscular black cows and two improbably fluffy… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of… — Julie Anne Long Chess Copy Share Image
“Men who are fatally struck usually take a moment to drop. He felt rather suspended in that moment.” — Julie Anne Long Time Copy Share Image
“What was love if not a certain pleasantly deluded familiarity built up over years?” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Ah, Lyon: the Achilles’ heel of this family. She had forgotten about Lyon, and about disappearing Redmonds.” — Julie Anne Long Achilles heel Copy Share Image
“I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because ‘sterner stuff’ is usually forged by hardship.” — Julie Anne Long Hardship Copy Share Image
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