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After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

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Anne Stuart
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 2
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anne Kristine Stuart
Spinster
Spinsters
Required
Wouldn
Simply
Around
Enough

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I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.
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She tilted her head to one side, considering him. Do you love me? Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment. Do you love me? she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. Yes, may it curse my soul. May it save your soul, she said.
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Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
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You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.And you're such a gentleman.Not with you, love. But I'm trying.
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She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
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If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
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She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.
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And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.
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You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out. Do you even know where a human liver resides?[...] Yes, she said, and punched him in it.
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Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?” “No. I just prefer to keep my distance.” “Evil isn’t contagious.” “I thought you said you weren’t the most evil man in the world?” “I’m not. But that doesn’t mean I’m a good man.” “I don’t think anyone would argue with that.
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He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. I love you, Chloe, he said. Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.
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You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you? I haven't seen enough to form an opinion. But you believe in the devil? When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes, she said.
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She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. Show me how much you hate me, he whispered against her mouth. Prove it to me.
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If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.
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If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.
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If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.
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Jesus, woman! he snapped. When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?
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She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster.
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The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.
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