“He thought he saw pain in her eyes, a pain that mirrored his own. But in the next moment, that pain was gone, and he was left alone in his.”
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“Startled, she met his eyes again, and he thought he saw a glimmer of the girl he once had known peek out at him from behind the veil of the past.”
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“She had run from men's anger all her life, and when she could not run, she had hidden within herself. But now, standing with Pembroke, she did not feel threatened. Some secret part of her soul was certain that he would never hurt her.”
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“Whatever would happen tomorrow, this was why she had come. So that she might feel safe like this again, if only for one night.”
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“There is no need to thank me. No honorable man would turn his back on a woman in need." . . .
"No, I suppose not . . . But I have never before known an honorable man.”
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“ليس الخلاص عندي في رفض الحياه ,فاني لأحس ضمه الحريه في عشرات المئات من قيود الملذات ,كلا..لن اغلق حواسي , ان مباهج النظر, والسمع واللمس ستحمل دائما طابع النعيم الاكبر , اجل ان كل اوهامي ستتقد لتكون انوارا في مهرجان الافراح وستنضج كل اشواقي لتكون ثمارا في ربيع الحب وهو موقف ايجابي من الحياه والطبيعه.”
“He was not sure what he would have said, but whatever tender words he might have uttered, whatever mad declaration of undying passion he might have made died on his lips, unspoken.”
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“Pembroke simply sat and stared at her, trying desperately to ignore the knife lodged in his chest. She had set that knife there ten years before. It was still there, just where she had placed it, cutting his heart in two.”
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“That this woman took men into her bed for money was distasteful, but no more distasteful than being forced to marry an elderly man for a title. She and Titania had a great deal in common. Like all women, both lived their lives at the whims of men.”
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“You came to me for help, and now you have it, madame, whether you want it or not.”
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