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'he polish and brilliant technique were still there, but there was a new feeling in the playing. It was a change reflected in his body. When he took his applause he was obviously thinner. He had never been less than fit, but now his bones showed through the brown skin, the harshness of them taut.' hero decline!! Idk why I love it when heroes physically ~suffer for love~ or what tht says about me (lol) but it's great

'Her mission in life engrossed her to the fullest. She was an information service. She gathered it and she passed it on, often, Grandie said, much embellished. Mrs Robinson was an artist. She was not content with life as it was—she improved upon it.' Charlotte Lamb was such a great writer -- not always in terms of content, but just her prose itself

If I didn't know that this is a romance novel I would definitely think Gideon was going to turn out to secretly be Marina's father