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“have a history of reacting poorly when shouted at,”

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“Be a little less honest and a little more tactful.”

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“A gentleman doesn’t tell.”

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“and the person I most want to run away from is me.”

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“I have become a veritable scholar in seemingly innocent ploys to get his skin against mine.”

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“Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood.”

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“I've always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious.”

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“If the Good Lord didn't want men to play with themselves, we'd have hooks for hands.”

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“When he speaks again, his tone is nearer to reverence, a voice for saints and sacred places.”

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“Well, one is illegal. And a sin. And the other is also a sin, if you aren’t married to her.”

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“Don’t drink too much.” “Could I get an absolute value on too much?”

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“clean up, sober up, stop letting lads climb in through your bedroom window at night or else—”

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“Lucky for me as well, or else we might never have met, and then what would have been the point of my…

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“Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.”

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“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

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“I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from…

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“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we…

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“Perhaps fashion is just a reinforcement of a lady’s chastity, in hopes that the interested party may lose interest and abandon any…

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“is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like…

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“I’m sorry,” she says. “What for?” “You’ve had a rough go.” “Everyone has a rough go. I’ve had it far easier than…

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“brushes his mouth against the corner of mine, and Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, it takes every ounce of the not-inconsiderable restraint I’ve…

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“It wasn’t the first time I’d thought it—wouldn’t be the last either, though I didn’t know that then—but it was the first…

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“Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one…

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“So long as you don’t go falling in love with me.” I don’t know why I say it. Call it battlements around…

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“Are you going to be sick?” I raise my head. The duke is gone, but Helena is on the window seat, twisting…

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“Why didn’t you tell me?” He clenches his hands into fists around the blankets, face set, then says, “Fine, you want to…

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“A small shift in the gravity between us and suddenly all my stars are out of alignment, planets knocked from their orbits,…

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“Though I would hang on because I’d likely wash up in France, and from what I remember from the summer my family…

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“I love you, but I don’t know how to help you. I still don’t! I’m an emotional delinquent and I say wrong…

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“The truth is that Percy has always been important to me, long before I fell so hard for him there was an…

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“In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi . It is…

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“What do you want me to say? Yes, I’m ill. I’m an epileptic—that’s my lot. It isn’t easy and it isn’t very…

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“The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for…

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“He raises his head. "You're nothing like your father, Monty. For a start, you're far more decent than he is." I'm not…

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“Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”

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“What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?”

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“Dear. Lord. Fortune has well and truly vomited down my front in the form of Mr. Lockwood. As”

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“It is impossible to explain how you can love someone so much that it’s difficult to be around him. And”

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“There are bodies buried beneath the flagstones of my parents' estate, and some graves never green.”

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“Blackmail is aggravating in normal circumstances, but far worse when it's coming from a younger sister.”

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