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"How could anyone ever leave such a place?' she whispered. 'It's surely enchanted.' [...] He chuckled, and there was a light in his eyes when he glanced at her. 'It is beautiful, I'll grant you that, but there are no resident wizards and no dragon slayers. We're on our own, princess."

"Wish I could summon up a little villainy, but there it is. I'm a knight who was never issued his shining armor, but a chivalrous fellow nonetheless."

"Furthermore, I will not be dictated to, one way or the other. My feelings are my own and if I want to hide them, I damn well will!"

"You're a wild rose, beautiful and fragrant and so thick with thorns that it takes all a man's courage to touch you."

"And here I am, a sea-going Lazarus, roused from my watery grave. I might offer myself as a bridegroom at any moment, who knows?"