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“Lyly placed her fingers over Patrick’s mouth. “Hush,” she whispered. “It was because of me and my family that you suffered-” Patrick’s arms closed around her. He placed his warm lips over hers. Her mind whirled and her heart pounded.”
― The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper
― The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper

“The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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“No matter how many times I made plans, or how
violently I tried to shake myself out of this stupor, I could
never destroy the conviction that whatever I escaped to
would prove only to be another, greyer prison.”
― Puck's Legacy
violently I tried to shake myself out of this stupor, I could
never destroy the conviction that whatever I escaped to
would prove only to be another, greyer prison.”
― Puck's Legacy

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own,
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do your worst, for I have lived today.
- Horace”
― The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream
He who can call today his own,
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do your worst, for I have lived today.
- Horace”
― The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream
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