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“When you realize you’re moving back, let me know.” His jaw ticks. “Because when you steal Uncle Alberto’s girl, I promise you, you’re going to need a fucking army.”

“When you realize you’re moving back, let me know.” His jaw ticks. “Because when you steal Uncle Alberto’s girl, I promise you, you’re going to need a fucking army.”

“Visconti men in particular don’t fall in love. Because falling suggests it was accidental, and everything this family does is cold and calculated.”

“It was going to take all my willpower to do the right thing.”

No one will bother you out here, especially because, well . . .” “They all think I’m dead,” she finished for me.

“My head and heart waged civil war against each other and, for the first time in my life, my heart was winning.”

“I couldn’t delude myself into thinking our relationship was anything more than what it was. That was a surefire way to a broken heart, and I already had enough broken things in my life.”

“We’d exchanged only a handful of words, yet I already knew two things with gut certainty. One, Dante was going to be my fiancé. Two, we might kill each other before we ever made it to the altar.”

“This was a practical match, not a love match, but he kept doing and saying things that made it difficult for her to remember that.”

“She almost wished she didn’t know the truth. It was a relief, in a way, to be reassured that she hadn’t simply been thinking the worst of him. But Lord, for a few brief seconds, she’d let herself believe that he might actually hold her in high esteem, and learning otherwise hurt.”

“Miss Hart was unlike any woman he’d ever met. He had a feeling he could grow to enjoy her company very much.”

“What do you want from me?” “Honestly?” I nodded. “Always.” “Everything,” she whispered, looking into my eyes. “Especially the broken parts.”

“He could have and take whatever he wanted from me, I would gladly give it all to him so long as I had a promise in blood that he would never hurt me so badly I wouldn’t mend. Because I knew I wouldn’t bounce back from this. From him.”

“I liked the fact that she was turning my life on its axis and encouraging never-seen-before notions and feelings inside of me, and then I hated that I liked it.”

“And hurting her was bad. Hurting her made me want to hurt something harder.”

“I would promise all the fucking promises in the world just to make this girl feel better.”

“If he couldn’t get enough space from her to clear his mind, he was doomed. She was too. She just didn’t realize it yet.”

"Theo may not want a wife, but he’d do his best to provide and care for one. He wasn’t cruel, just jaded.”

<>“Sometimes, my dear, it doesn’t matter what the truth is—it only matters how the situation looks.”

“I don’t want you to put your life on hold; I want you to invite me into it.”

“Audrey is everything I didn’t know I wanted, and I’m not sure I can live without her now she’s back in my life.”

“Everything’s more complicated now, and getting involved with her is probably a terrible idea. But I can’t shake the sensation that even though I’m not what she wants, I might be exactly what she needs—and she might be what I need, too.”

“We may not always see eye to eye, we may dislike each other half the time, but Ruthie is mine to protect. She always has been.”

“Here’s another truth: you don’t always end up where you meant to go. Sometimes you start in one direction and find yourself in another without any idea how to get back, and no memory of why it was important to keep trying.”

“I’ve spent a lifetime thinking I don’t like talking. It turns out I just needed the right person to talk to.”

“We’re feeling complicated and inevitable all at once.”

“Grieving something that never was and never will be is a special sort of hell.”

“I shouldn’t be doing this. He shouldn’t be doing this. We shouldn’t be doing this. And yet I’m falling with no landing in sight.”