Cecilia Grant Quotes

#1. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.

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#2. I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings.
He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length, like a scullery maid disposing of a dead rat.

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#3. Love makes us all do unaccountable things.

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#4. I'd think a man who has sinful thoughts, yet conducts himself decently, is a better exemplar of virtue than a man who's never tested by such thoughts at all.

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#5. Hope, and faith that your efforts will have been enough. And as much peace as you can muster with the possibility that they won't.

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#6. The smallest grain of natural honesty and benevolence has more effect on men's conduct, than the most pompous views suggested by theological theories and systems.

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#7. Don't you find that a terribly romantic idea? Love stealing in to overtake two people who'd believe they were merely friends?

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#8. If you expect to never make a mistake with the people you love, you'll only disappoint yourself. Over and over.

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#9. With all the insolence she swallowed, it was a wonder her corsets still laced. Retort after rejoinder after sharp-edged remark: Why do you address me? What can I possibly have to say to a man who would split a pair of fives? Be quiet. Go to sleep. Go away. Come back when you have another erection.

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#10. Honor is the best part of you, Will Blackshear. And I don't make that pronoucement lightly. No woman could, who's ever seen you naked.

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#11. He'd shut the door on the subject of loss, thrown all the bolts, and shoved a heavy table up against it for good measure.

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#12. There was little point in mourning a thing you'd never had, and so she didn't mourn, most days.

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#13. Even two people who are no more than friends by daylight can fell prey to the influence of a secret dark room.

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#14. How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?

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#15. I love you for your quickness and your brokenness and your sharp edges too.

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