“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
“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
“One of heartbreak's chief qualities seemed to be its ability to distort time and distances.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Use it all you want. Marry him. He’ll never really be yours, and you’ll never know it. Or maybe you will.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“No proper life could be made from the pursuit of blinding pleasure followed by limp exhaustion.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that’s its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances…” He paused. “…are often deceiving.” — Julie Anne Long Fragility Copy Share Image
“He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.” — Julie Anne Long Life 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
“He stared in something like disbelief. He'd seen a man convulse after being struck by a bolt of lighting once. Watching the… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“How had she ever thought his blue eyes placid as a lake? But there was untold power in any water: to buoy,… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Did that kiss nearly destroy the memory of all other kisses, and become the benchmark against which all future kisses would be… — Julie Anne Long Kiss Copy Share Image
“When Phoebe glanced back at the marquess he swiftly lifted that rogue lock of hair, pointed at his forehead and mouthed: Good… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“She thought that heartbreak might just give his character the shadows and corners and angles it needed to make it truly interesting.… — Julie Anne Long Falling in love 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
“When and if Violet ever fell in love, lightning would split the heavens, tectonic plates would shift, continents would reorder themselves. Because… — Julie Anne Long Love Copy Share Image
“Yes, Miss Masters, but walking is also a way to announce who you are." Gideon waved one arm impassionedly. "How you view… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“The message was sealed with a blob of wax but no press of a signet. She slid a finger beneath to crack… — Julie Anne Long Message 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
“A proper kiss, Miss Eversea, should turn you inside out. It should . . . touch places in you that you didn’t… — Julie Anne Long Pleasure Copy Share Image
“For you see, Captain Flint, I, too, never settle for less than what I want. Or never thought I possibly could. I’m… — Julie Anne Long Adventure Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we can discuss this further during the dancing portion of the evening. You'll enjoy waltzing with me later this evening, Miss… — Julie Anne Long Conversation 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
“May I see your dance card?” “Don’t you believe me?” She presented it to him with a flourish. He ran his fingers… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Foolishness had never been an option in his life. He hadn’t acquired the knack for it. He should have known. Kisses, he’d… — Julie Anne Long Complicated things Copy Share Image
“Very well,” she said after a moment. “Here is how I see that loyalty and love are the same: You would lay… — Julie Anne Long Love Copy Share Image
“It's what this night would feel like if I could seize hold of it” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Your imagination has an impressive reach.” “Or my boredom an impressive scope.” — Julie Anne Long Imagination Copy Share Image
“Everyone needed a reminder to simply look at things and enjoy them, without labeling them.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“but the pain was old to him, and somehow it had become a part of him. He could bear it and speak… — Julie Anne Long Pain Copy Share Image
“She didn't usually mind being just a bit in over her head. She generally flailed like a becalmed ship, irritable and purposeless… — Julie Anne Long Heart Copy Share Image
“Vicars, he often thought, are essentially God’s lawyers on the earth. Interpreters of the law, the finders of nuance, sifters through rationalizations… — Julie Anne Long Lawyer Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a… — Julie Anne Long Emotions Copy Share Image
“imagine the ton would leap from London Bridge if the marquess did it first. Mind you, he’d land on a cart carrying… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“The wrong man could have brought it all crashing down,” she told him. “A different man might have collapsed under the weight… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“And much like a catapult, my dear, the lower you begin in life, the higher you can eventually fly. All it requires… — Julie Anne Long Catapult Copy Share Image
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