"I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter."
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"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later."
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"My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling."
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"Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip."
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"We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone."
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"In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you."
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"There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel."
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"Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision."
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"Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks."
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"She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong."
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"Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together"
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"Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't."
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"Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has."
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"You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever."
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"I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear."
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"I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live."
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"If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford."
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"He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package."
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"I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning."
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"Life does not always gives us the choices that we want"
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