"I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis."
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"Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow."
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"One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy."
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"Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining."
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"I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die."
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"I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself."
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"Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish."
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"I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me."
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"You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?"
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"Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing."
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"Discretion is a synonym for intelligence."
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"It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all."
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"Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person."
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"A stale mind is the devil's breadbox."
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"Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy."
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"He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all."
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"Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts."
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"They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other."
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"God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread."
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"The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything."
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