Quotes From "Wicked Becomes You" By Meredith Duran

What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions. Meredith Duran

He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly. Meredith Duran

You are...beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all. Meredith Duran

I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly. Meredith Duran

She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others' responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort of service was owed to those whom he loved. Meredith Duran

I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness Meredith Duran

She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut their fingers and mingle their blood and know this meant something. She longed for some transformation more lasting than that wrought by the law and his name, some visceral change he might effect in her so that anyone on the street with one glance would know she was his. Meredith Duran

If Gerry were dying of thirst and spotted Alex two feet from a well, he still would not think he required his younger brother's help. It simply would never occur to him that Alex might be able to provide it. Meredith Duran

There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble. Meredith Duran

And I said, 'That is why you don't climb mountains, Gwen.' But now I wonder. You aren't afraid of heights."" No", she said. "Not particularly."" Only missteps." She paused midstroke. Did he mean to imply this had been a misstep? "I was afraid, " she said carefully. "For a very long time. But no longer." "So was I, " he said, and lifted her chin and kissed her. Meredith Duran

For God's sake, Gwen, " he said gently. "What matter that I love you. That's not the bit that's always been missing." Her lips parted. They wished to ask a question she could not bear to bring herself to ask. He was never less than honest. The answer, than, was bound to be wrong." So she did not ask it as a question. "You won't leave me, " she said. He drew a long breath. "There, " he said, quietly, fiercely. "That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen." His hands closed on her wrists, tightening until she swallowed and found her courage and looked up at him. "I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble. Meredith Duran

Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical. Meredith Duran