He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.
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Julie Anne Long
He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent."" I keep telling everyone that, " she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.
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Julia Quinn
For a long moment the butler sat in silence, his jaw hanging open. “I. my lord, I simply don't feel qualified to advise you about such matters.”“ Don't tell me that, ” Saint protested. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>“Tell me whether you can imagine me as a...
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Suzanne Enoch
Forgive me for saying so, Your Highness, " Clarissa said slowly, "but for one as unaccustomed to good deeds as you, perhaps it would be best if you started with one on a smaller scale. Something like, I don't know, spreading bread crumbs for birds?""...
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Victoria Alexander
There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.
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Gregory David Roberts
More Quotes By Vladimir Nabokov
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her —after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred— I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness...
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
