Sara Donati Quotes

#1. I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

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#2. Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

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#3. If this went on much longer, Mary Augustin told herself, her brain would be riddled with question marks, hundreds of little hooks set so deep they'd never let go.

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#4. I have loved the stars too well to fear the night.
---Elizabeth Middleton Bonner

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#5. No one ever does anything our of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well , and I need my sleep.

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#6. Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.

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#7. There's no need to whisper," Elizabeth told her now. "You could sing at the top of your voices and no one would hear you out here on the water." But the women smiled at her suggestion in surprise and unease, as if she had told them that they could fly.

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#8. when he managed to get one into his mouth.

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#9. There was nothing predictable in this life, and very little that was fair.

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#10. wondering how to get his hands on it." Carefully,

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#11. A hole ain't nothing either, but you can still break your neck in it.

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#12. subject for discussion. What terrible messes we get ourselves into when we are silly enough to fall in love,

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#13. Queens and goddesses forget nothing, except when it suits them.

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#14. white sand. Lily white. Lily. After a good while she realized

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#15. She wore her determination like war paint.

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#16. Over the village of Paradise lightning jumped from cloud to cloud and then it put down long legs and walked the earth.

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#17. When it's right it's never too late, when it's wrong it's always too soon

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#18. Very slowly Elizabeth leaned forward until her forehead rested on his shoulder, shuddering with pleasure and relief at the feel of him, at his smell.

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