Eloisa James Quotes

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I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

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We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

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If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

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I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

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Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.

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I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

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If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

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I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

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I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

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You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

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You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

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He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

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I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

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Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

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One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

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In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

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Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

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I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.

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