Believe me, it is quite unnecessary! I neither know nor care what it cost to redeem Lufra–and if you badger me on this very boring matter I shall not invite you to go with me when I try out my new team! ” There was a moment’s tense silence; then Jessamy raised his eyes, no longer glowing, but uncomfortably austere. “Very well, sir, ” he said quietly. “Will you tell me, if you please, what I owe you?”“ No, young Stiff-rump! I will not! . Georgette Heyer
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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Lauren Oliver
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
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David Foster Wallace
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
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Cassandra Clare
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
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Zayn Malik
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his...
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Georgette Heyer
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
My house seems remarkably full of people, " he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
You will like her, " he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm."" Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire-- I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.
If it comes to that, " retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me, cousin! You are quite abominable! " He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
