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"It occurs to me that what I feel, watching them, is a sense of betrayal. I carried these children into the world, paid their entrance fee with dues rendered upon my own body, and now they no longer need me."

"However much you want to protect your heart, it's already to late, isn't it?"

"The Lord has not forsaken us. Never doubt in the darkness what God has given us in the light."

"He reminded me of a large cat. Not the domestic kind, all fat and bothered by the world, but rather a jungle cat. Sleek and purring and...dangerous."

"Nothing dare come between me and my love for Christ."

"Being with Daniela isn't like being home. It defines home."

A cast of a dozen characters with constantly changing perspectives (with no name to show the who you're switching to) has my head spinning. 💫

"I am a prisoner of time, and no choice I make will be good enough for the people I love."

"Sometimes the best way to heal is to help others."

Andrew has a heart of gold. 😭 "He was a healer and was starting to heal my heart, whether he realized it or not."

"It's not our bad days or our hormones that are the real hang-ups, but instead our inability to be anything but mediocre without Christ."

"The pain will come regardless, and at this point I expect to feel it immensely. Besides, I doubt a mere kiss can add that much more hurt."

He lowered his face, leaning his forehead against mine. "Perhaps your expectations are too low."

The narrator in this audio book cracks me up 😂 She portrays a woman pretending to be an impertinent spoiled heiress in hopes of getting the arranged marriage retracted. Such wit and flamboyant insolence!

"I'm on a suicide mission...I must have known all this when I volunteered. But to my amnesia-riddled brain this is new information. I'm going to die out here. And I'm going to die alone."

"He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you."

"You don't want a prince, you want a puppet!"

"The power to protect is the highest of responsibilities, Diago. When a man is given it, his duty is not only to the people he thinks are worthy."

"That's how the Hierarchy operates, after all: the potential of reward ahead, and menace of punishment chasing behind. Even if only one of them is usually real."

"Confidence-real or perceived-has a peculiar power over people."

"People will think what they want to. Never take too much notice of it."

"A murderer is always a gambler. And like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop."

"For a moment, our hearts were young again."

"History claimed my sister would be Jack the Ripper's last victim."

"If I waited tae love someone until they were perfect, I'd ne'er love anyone at all."

"What we must study is humanity. In order to rule, ours must by the study of political, psychological, and behavioral science-how desperate human beings react to one another, how packs form, how armies function, how things fall apart and why."

"I thought society only played games with its slaves."

The scent of lavender gives the MFC headaches: she proceeds to apply some to her temples. 😆

Apparently psychological thrillers and action reads have ruined my love of slower paced mysteries like this one. Rip. I'll keep reading it cause I'm not a quitter.

"My children were playing 'shoot the Jew' and I was not allowed to discipline them."

"Intimacy requires the repeated experience of being responded to."