Top 65 Christina Dodd Quotes
#1. For the first time, Jacqueline heard Charisma sound less like an enthusiastic girl and more like a woman whose hard won maturity had cost her dearly
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#2. If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
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#3. What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl." He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles.
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#4. Miss Prendregast!" He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. "You were never in any danger!"
"Except from the wild animals."
His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. "Alert me if you're attacked by a rabbit.
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#5. Fill me in on the details of your life."
"I thought you didn't give a shit."
"It'll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.
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#6. The greatest knight in all of England, fallen from glory by a single blow. What a shame." "A greater shame to dwell on it," Charles suggested. "So shut your mouth, Arthur.
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#7. Oh, God. Not again."
Not again?
"Do you make a habit of driving into people's houses?
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#8. Holding her tight against him, he said, I am the blood in your veins, the marrow in your bones. You'll never go anywhere without knowing I'm inside you, supporting you, keeping you alive. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. We are forever.
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#9. Ah, Lord Northcliff, how well you look this afternoon!"
"Thank you. I feel well indeed."
Taking Amy's hand, he held it in both of his. "As long as my princess is nigh.
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#10. I didn't burn down anyone's house! I didn't. I wouldn't!"
Maddie looked at Jacob.
"You know I wouldn't. I didn't kill you when I had the chance!
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#11. Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.
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#12. I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.
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#15. I could write an epic poem about your thighs."
"That would amuse polite society rather too much, and I wouldn't like that."
"I wouldn't either." She pressed her cheek to his belly. "I can't think of a word to rhyme with marble column.
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#16. The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.
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#17. All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.
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#20. They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in.
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#21. Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.
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#22. Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.
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#23. Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.
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#24. Archaeologist, adventurer - I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same.
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#25. When she thought of how Lord Northcliff was ruining the life of a poor, sweet, old lady, she wanted to shriek with frustration. She wanted to shake him until he saw sense. She wanted to . . . she wanted to arrange a carriage accident that would finish him off.
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#26. Logic is overrated and superfluous when it comes to love.
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#27. You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.'
It's a gift.
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#28. Why do we have to go to Summerwind Abbey tonight? Why couldn't we have waited until I at least combed the sand out of my hair? She heard the whine in her voice and realized she'd been reduced to petulance. With any luck at all, she'd become a nag and make Jermyn a dreadful wife.
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#29. For as long as I could remember, I had always been the girl who had watched her father kill her mother.
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#30. Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization
-Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne
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#31. If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee.
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#32. So you know you're a ghost?"
I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?
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#33. It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development.
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#34. If ye canna see the bright side o' life, polish the dull side
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#35. If Amy had one ounce of romance in her soul, she would be sighing with gratification. Instead, she said acerbically, "All that's missing is the love poem."
Jermyn deposited her in a chair by the table. "I'll order a pen and ink for you.
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#36. I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.
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#37. Saura nodded, bemused by the code of ethics that allowed for murder and kidnapping but balked at a lady touching a lord outside of the state of wedlock.
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#38. Because when I pray, I say your name first, and I say your name last. When I breathe, I breathe for you. Every kind thing I say, every good thing I do, I do because I know you're in the world and I ... I love you.
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#39. Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.
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#40. I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.
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#41. But some vows are made for good reason, and some are made for pride.
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#42. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.
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#44. I was out on a lonely road that stretched forever into the darkness. I wanted to run, to get away from him, but it was so dark, I was afraid of where I was going.
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#45. Don't you have any respect for your betters?"
"I do. That's why I'm going to help her up the stairs and put her to bed with a cup of hot tea. You can just sit here and ... jangle your manacle!
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#46. Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.
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#47. The only person who fears nothing is one who has nothing to lose.
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#48. I'm sorry about the screaming. I thought you were him.
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#49. She was no longer a coward, forcing bravery from herself - she was brave. "You're not going to kill me," she said, and with swift impatience, she jabbed her elbow in his gut.
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#50. She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.
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#51. I've been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch.
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#52. By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones.
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#54. I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.
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#55. So while I can spin my fantasy whenever I wish, I'm afraid you wouldn't do for me."
Sarcasm dripped from her every word. "You're good at imagining, so pray imagine my heartbreak.
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#56. We're lucky." He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. "Most couples have only one first kiss. We'll have two.
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#57. The pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.
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#58. Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.
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#61. I've been a foul-mouthed knave." "Well, I don't know." "A beetle-headed malfeasor." "Nothing so - " "A base, proud tottyhead." He paused, but she said nothing. "Aren't you going to object?" "No," she drawled the word. "Humility is so refreshing in a man.
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#62. Are you a man?' The question slipped out, and she regretted it. Regretted injecting reality into this delicate, lovely dream of passion. 'I thought I had conclusively proved my manhood to you. Shall I do it again?
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#63. A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them
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#64. Because late night, when I made you mine - "
"Shush. You didn't!"
"All right. Last night when you made me yours - "
She definitely heard Pom snort.
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#65. When I break a rock open with my pick, I'm a prophet. I see the past. I see the future. I know where the world is going, and where it's been. And I always, always want to know more.
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