Top 48 Connie Brockway Quotes
#1. At best she's a scrawny, hollow-eyed croneling." "Croneling?" John tilted his head in perplexity. "Croneling. Noun. One who has yet to achieve cronehood. The adolescent phase of the British crone," Avery lectured.
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#2. She felt abused, used, cherished, and pleasured.
She despised him. She loved him. She mistrusted him. She had complete faith in him. Ah!
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#4. War does not ask which of its victims deserves to die and which does not. It is indiscriminate. Innocent as well as guilty fall before it.
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#5. She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave.
Or so she'd thought.
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#6. The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.
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#7. I am no good without you, Ginesse," he said. "I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.
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#8. Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.
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#9. Robin had never been in love before, which is precisely how he recognized the sensation with such absolute certainty.
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#10. He wanted her. Her. Nothing could take that away from her. Ever. He wanted her, not the status he thought her purloined name could bring him
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#11. [S]he hardly deserved to be labeled a witch.'
'I find it hard to believe anyone could take such a thing seriously. This isn't the Dark Ages.'
'All ages are dark, Hayden,' Grey said gently.
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#12. Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?
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#13. She had meant to woo him. In her own weird, unsettling way she had simply been courting him and he'd been too stupid to realize it.
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#15. The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: "Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?"
A thousand. None of them good enough.
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#16. Without remorse she gave good-bye to her fantasies. They'd served their purpose, they'd awoken her heart to its potential. But as far as using them as a template for her life ...
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#17. Because every time you said my name, it would touch
your lips." His voice lost its hard edge, grew as dark and
smoky as his gaze. "Like a kiss.
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#18. Do you gamble, Captain MacNeill?"
"Never, sir."
"No?" the marquis looked surprised. "Thought you soldiers were all inveterate gamblers."
"Only with our lives, sir. Never had anything else I could afford to lose.
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#21. You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.
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#22. As a gentleman- assuming you still have some pretensions in that direction- of honor- again, perhaps presumptuous, but still supposing your passing acquaintance with the concept- it is your duty- I won't even trouble to speculate here, but remain naively hopeful- to protect those under your care.
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#27. Some days you're the cockroach, some days you're the boot heel.
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#28. I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes.
He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much."
This time, she didn't hit him.
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#29. There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
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#30. Anyway, as I was saying, I don't know about you, Granddad, but I come from a long line of" - her gaze flicked through the open door into the room behind - "fishermen, who taught me that whilst I wasn't ever to think I was better than anyone else, I should always keep in mind that I was just as good.
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#31. You are my country, Desdemona ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.
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#32. The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security
somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.
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#33. Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.
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#34. Resist demonstrating that your worldliness was more fiction than fact," he whispered. "You, Lady Agatha, in the common parlance with which you are so fascinatingly familiar, 'ain't so tough.
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#35. Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
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#36. Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton)
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#38. If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.
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#39. An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.
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#40. The heart doesn't ask permission. It is singularly unconcerned with the qualifications of those it chooses to love. It mocks the intellect, it subjugates reason, and it holds hostage the will to survive.
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#41. If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.
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#42. Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.
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#43. Foolish Lily," he said. "Don't you know why I haven't touched you? Didn't you guess that once you were in my arms I would never let you go?
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#44. Has he ever even said he loved you?"
"He's been telling me for years," she said softly, "I just wasn't listening
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#46. Another suitor you failed to mention?" he asked, only half in jest.
Her eyes widened innocently, she started to shake her head - and froze.
"Look mister," Jim said tiredly. "I don't know who you are, and I don't care. You're too damn old for her-"
"Hi, Daddy.
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#47. Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.
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#48. Madam, I could teach lessons in hell on the subject of 'want.'
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