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“So, you do speak English. That makes sense now.” Catherine said, shaking her head.

“Of course, I speak English. I’m from Australia, not Tanzania.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: compelling, friendship, fun, humorous-fiction, journey, laugh-out-loud, relationships, rom-com, romance-novel, suspense

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“During her lifetime Eleanor of Aquitaine had not been a patient woman. While she had lived, she had learned to bide her time, but biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

tags: eleanor-of-aquitaine, patience

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“but his body persisted in rebellion and his senses nagged at him like pampered babies.”
― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

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“Her lips silently formed three words, oh my love.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: ancestry, courage, engrossing, history, hope, king, knight, save-the-world, stabbed, sword-fighting

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“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece