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I don't care much for diamonds, ' Nicola had told him.' Have you ever been offered any?' he had asked, and he had been making fun of her, his face mocking.' Not that I can remember, ' Nicola had admitted calmly.' And how would an offer be received?' he had asked, as though he knew the answer.' With a kick in the teeth, ' Nicola had said, meeting his eye.Charlotte Lamb
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Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember.Charlotte Lamb
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Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.Charlotte Lamb
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When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.Charlotte Lamb
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I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?Charlotte Lamb
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You are as ordinary as spring, ' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn, ' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her.Charlotte Lamb