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We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know.
“I would say"—he shaped the words close to her mouth, as if each of them was its own kiss, a private prayer—"I love you as a man loves a woman, but we both know that love is not bound by such narrow terms. So instead let me simply tell you that I love you. I love you with the unfading flame of my friendship. With every drop of ardour in my blood. I love you with my soul, as some reserve their faith for absent gods. I love you as I believe in what is right and hope for what is good. I love you with everything I am and ever was—and if you will only let me, with every day that comes, and every self that I could ever be.”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
“I am not sure love unshown is really love at all. What good does caring for a person do if you're never there when they need you?”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
“When she thought of that long night, it was like remembering an extraordinarily tough match where she’d prevailed. Except there was no trophy or applause. The only recognition you got for surviving a night like that came from other mothers. Only they understood the epic nature of your trivial achievements.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
“she was a woman, and women know that babies and husbands and sick parents can derail your dreams, at any moment they can drag you from your bed, they can forestall your career, they can lift you from your prized seat at Wimbledon from a match later described as “epic.” She”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon
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Sicily ’s 2025 Year in Books
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