Ashley Gardner Quotes

#1. She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She

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#2. You are right," Josette said softly. "I am devoted

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#3. I was torn between anger and amusement.

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#4. Fletcher shrugged. "Science and mathematics are all the rage, you know. But who has time for good old Horace?

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#5. I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.

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#6. But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self.

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#7. Mrs. Bennington's dramatic expression faded, and she made a face, much like a girl who has been given porridge when she expected thick ham.

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#8. Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed.

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#9. My father tolerated no dramatics of any kind. I'm not certain which is more devilish uncomfortable - too many emotions or none at all.

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#10. What bloody man is that, sir?" I tossed the paper in the grate, though there was no fire on this warm summer day. "Bartholomew, you are quoting from Macbeth, did you know? King Duncan in the first scene, which is ominous. He died rather horribly soon after.

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#11. A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.

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#12. He shrugged. "I don't know either. I can't read Frog-speak.

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#13. Greed can destroy so much," Sir Montague nodded.

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#14. I returned to my rooms, enraged and no further forward. Yesterday, I had believed that Denis murdered Horne, but after meeting him, I changed my conclusion.

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#15. Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened

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#16. Hmm," I said. "Nuisance" at least sounded affectionate. My wife had been alternately terrified of or furious with me.

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#17. pugilist who won every match was dull, she

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#18. A good book is like a good friend, do you know, Lacey? One you can turn to when the night is cold and you are lonely. And there is old Herodotus, standing ready to regale me with tales of his travels.

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#19. But the world turned, and it changed, and eventually all tyrants fell to become dust.

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#20. Things could crawl at you out of the dark and hurt you again and again. The past did not always stay dead.

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