Top 51 A.C. Gaughen Quotes
#1. He put his hand to my cheek, just touching the fingertips to my skin before pulling away. You are.
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#2. Rob looked a little shocked. "Don't you look at me like that," I snapped at him. "Just because I can't trim a beard don't mean I can't swear."
"Like a sailor," he added. "I've never heard so many curses in my whole life. All combined.
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#4. I wouldn't fix a broken thing only to see it shatter before my eyes a moment later.
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#5. You used to be afraid to get so close to me," I told him, and he met my eyes. "That was a good instinct.
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#6. Ain't got so much moral ground to stand on.
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#7. A fighting man will die without something to fight for."
"And a woman?" I asked her.
She drew in a slow breath. "Everyone needs something - someone - to fight for, Marian.
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#8. Allan sighed, lying down in the grass. "Fine. I'm too pretty for all this serious business."
"I can make you a little uglier, if you wish," David said.
Allan lifted his head. "So you agree -- I'm pretty." he said smiling.
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#9. Every day we lived, and every day it felt like we had a little less to live for.
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#10. There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.
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#11. Rob's breath were pushing over my ear, his chest puffing up underneath me. His heart were beating so close to my own that it calmed me for sheer distraction.
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#12. Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.
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#13. I wouldn't never bathe with him or pass water when he were near. He got suspicious quick. Seems real boys are awfully eager to parade their bits around.
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#14. We do what we do because there's something we can do about it. Things like 'how long' and 'what if' aren't part of that. It's about the hope, not the horror.
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#15. Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.
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#16. Ireland?" he said. "I'm from Ireland! Why do you think I came here?" he said. "Nothing good in Ireland." He frowned. "Except the ale. The ale is fine.
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#17. I know what it's like when you can't get no one to listen to you. When what you say don't matter. I half think every girl knows what it's like to be silenced.
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#18. It seems a precious thing, for someone to know the very worst part of you and love you anyway.
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#19. Small men will always hurt things that are weaker than them.
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#20. You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can change everything.
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#21. You traitorous bitch!" he yelled. "You goddamn liar!"
I laughed. "You knew I were a bitch and a liar when you married me, Guy. It's your own damn fault for agreeing to it.
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#22. Because we always have a choice, even when it feels like we don't.
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#23. I've heard this is what you do,' he said. 'Stealing to feed people.' His head went to the side. 'It's so ... strange.
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#24. Our love filled the broken bits and made me whole again. There weren't a perfect time to love him, not ever, and it had always been with the threat of death and hurt hovering round us. And we'd love each other anyway. Sure, and true.
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#25. Talking one way or another doesn't make you better
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#26. We were supposed to have time. We'd paid dear, in blood and promises that took my soul with them. It was all supposed to have meant something.
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#27. Come let's go inside. I'm sure you and your men are hungry."
"Yes," Allan said, grinning.
"Shameless," I heard David grunt.
"There is no glory in shame," Allan said back.
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#28. Not only is a book without conflict something no one wants to read, but a life without conflict is something where nothing is gained, nothing is earned, nothing is won.
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#29. Sometimes it's harder to be bright when you feel the darkness inside you. Sometimes the very hardest thing is to let the pain go.
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#30. To me, true love is about finding someone who not only sees and accepts your demons but also is willing to step up and fight them when you stumble.
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#31. I do what I do because I will always believe that no matter how awful life gets for however many of these people, there is something I can do about it. There is something I will do about it.
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#32. More people care about you than you know, Scarlet. No matter how you got your scars." I covered my cheek, looking at her. "Not just those scars. The ones that make you think you're unlovable.
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#33. Rob sidled up next to me. "You don't have to come," he told me. "We can do it."
Glaring at him, I said, "I'm coming. For Heaven's sake, I put on a dress and you lot think I'm a girl.
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#34. His arms went round my waist. He had a big grin, full of teeth like stars. "You saying you're the jealous sort,Scar?"
"I'm saying that some girls slap, but I have knives.
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#35. You have to stay safe, Scar. Maybe it's your bits in a dress and maybe it's just you, but I'm awful fond of something in there. So don't get killed.
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#36. I will always return to him. I can deny it all I like," I told her in a whisper, "but when someone holds your heart, its impossible to stay away.
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#37. Of a band with three actual boys, why is it that all the maids lust after the fake one?
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#38. I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related ... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady
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#39. A knight," Allan muttered. "As if I would ever be a knight. I'm far too handsome to be a knight.
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#40. Your power, your great gift, is that you never give up. When something fails you make a new plan, and another, and another. You never accept defeat. You never give up.
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#41. You need to think!" he snapped.
"No!" I snapped back. "You need to think. Like a thief - like a girl. Like all the people that get their power and their choices taken away from them. I won't be one of them.
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#42. He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It's the weak man that must prove himself such.
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#43. He takes the guilt and responsibility that others can't. John takes the punches. I just take the hunger, and most times it feels like awful little.
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#44. I'll keep your heart, Scar," he whispered. "If you keep mine.
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#45. A knife? A knife? You come at me with a knife? ... I may be a bastard, a princess, a thief, and a royal. But do you know what the other thing is that makes me more powerful than you?" I said. He curled his lip at me. I held up the knife. "With a knife in my hand, I'm unbeatable.
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#46. I know what it is to look at your past, and see nothing more than your mistakes
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#47. We shoulder it so these people don't have to know it too. And I know this because that's what you say. And when you say it, I believe you. And when I believe you, I'll follow you anywhere.
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#49. Stories are told to make you feel something, and they can tell ours over and over again, and every time it will be something different.
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#50. Don't let a few silly truths muddle up a good story.
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#51. I won't go with you," Allan told me.
I scowled. "No one asked you to come."
He looked offended in a rather dire way. "Who will entertain you?
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