Sylvain Reynard Quotes & Sayings

#1. Your father is proud of us for having a
baby."
Gabriel nodded, as he continued brushing.
"That means he's proud of us for having sex and you for impregnating me. Do you think they make T-shirts for grandfathers that express those sentiments?

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#2. Ignorance," he rejoined, sounding cross. "You modern people live in your own version of the Dark Ages, dismissing anything you can't understand. If the relic didn't stop him, what the hell did?

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#3. Hell is knowing your fate and knowing there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.

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#4. I glad I your frist- Gabriel Emerson

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#5. I think if you car enough about someone to have sex with them, then you should care enough to respect them and not treat them as an object. You should be responsible and careful and never, ever hurt them. Even if they're fucked up enough to beg you to.

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#6. I was trying to be a human shield. I thought if he shouted at me and got it out of his system, he'd have nothing left for you.

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#7. Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go.

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#8. Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us.

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#9. If I were to taste your mouth now, I couldn't answer for the consequences. So I can only adore this beautiful neck. I know that in a few seconds I will have to pull away, before the temptation becomes too much. It's too much already. You have no idea how much I want you.

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#10. Your love makes me beautiful."
"Then let me love you forever.

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#11. Then you're going to take off your suit and show me just how much you missed your phone cord."
"And the attachment."
"And the attachment.

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#12. said once that you were not my equal, but my better.

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#13. Gabriel noticed with satisfaction the way Julia intentionally fingered one of her diamond earrings, as if she understood his revelations and received them gladly. As if she knew he was revealing his love for her through art. His heart swelled.

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#14. Like they'd never seen a hot professor before. You made quite an impression in your turtleneck."
"Ah, yes, the turtleneck. Turtles have that effect on people.

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#15. I'd never argue with a naked woman.

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#16. Patience was a virtue he possessed in abundance.

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#17. Paul is waiting ... I told you Fuck Paul. You're my Beatrice. You belong to me

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#18. He knew he lived in hell. He accepted it. He rarely complained. But truth be told, he desperately wished he could make his escape. His prayers went unanswered, and his plans for reform were almost always thwarted by something or other.

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#19. Julia wasn't breathing. How could she when the sensation was so intense? The taste of peppermint, the scent of Aramis, the way his breath consumed her.

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#20. So drop the Mr. Rochester-Mr. Darcy-Heathcliff British stuck-uppity and treat her like the treasure she is

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#21. I want to take care of you

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#22. We can't change out pasts. All we can change is the future.

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#23. I am about to bring you into the underworld, Persephone. Can you be brave?

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#24. A lion in charge of wolves, she thought. How convenient.

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#25. Liar. Liar. Beautiful blue eyes on fire.

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#26. Some grief is so great, it can't be felt; it can only be observed. Or denied.

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#27. Hands off the Precious, Gollum.

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#28. Marriage is more than a piece of paper. It'a a mystery. In fact, there is a Misdrash that suggests that marriage is made in heaven between soul mates.

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#29. For if you truly believe that kindness is never wasted, you have to hold tightly to that belief even when the kindness is thrown back in your face

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#30. He was paving hell with energy - buying an indulgence, forgiveness for sin.

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#31. Oh, you can be sure we will get into all kinds of mischief." He winked. "And there is a strong possibility that shenanigans and hijinks of various sorts will also occur, with regularity.

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#32. You can't control all of life's circumstances, but you can control your reactions to them.

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#33. Look at her. She does blossom under kindness. Just like a rose, opening her petals.

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#34. Don't tell me that our situation didn't damage us, possibly irreparably.

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#35. But when a person is upset, old patterns of behavior emerge. It's true for me too, except my coping mechanisms are different

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#36. You tell him that - tell him he fucks with the angel at his peril.

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#37. Cassita vulneratus. Raven awoke with a start.

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#38. You forget that when a woman finds a good man, a man who loves her and makes her happy, she doesn't fuck around.

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#39. Grace isn't something we deserve, Gabriel," Julia said softly. "It comes from love. And God wraps the world in second chances and sticky little leaves and mercy, even though some people don't want them.

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#40. The brown-eyes angel was weeping over the demon. The angel wept because she was grieved at the mere thought of someone hurting him

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#41. I'm Beatrice. You were my first kiss, I fell asleep in your arms in your precious orchard. -Julia

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#42. Don't you think she's had her quota of assholes?

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#43. Gabriel smiled slowly. I will always need you, Julianne.

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#44. Anyone who would judge you based on old gossip isn't a friend of yours, anyway.

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#45. She knew it was consonant with his character to be the avenging angel.

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#46. Sin isn't something that is attracted to a human being, Professor. It's the other way around.

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#47. You're an emotional rollercoaster, and I wanted to climb off.

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#48. No more weeping. I've seen enough tears from you to last a lifetime. And I'm not worth a single one.

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#49. If he's foolish enough to think beauty is in the skin and not the heart, then I hope he dies quickly and rids the world of his stupidity.

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#50. If I have a soul, it's yours.

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#51. I don't believe in fairy tales," she breathed.
"I'd like to make you believe." He leaned over and kissed her forehead.

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#52. I don't like to think of anything as hopeless

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#53. Rachel looked annoyed. "Do you think he's embarrassed by us?"
"More likely he's embarrassed by her," said Gabriel. "She's probably a stripper."
"Professors in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Rachel glared at her brother and stormed out.

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#54. Noah released the raven and the raven returned. If I were
able to hope, I'd hope you would return to me.

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#55. If you still believe, you must have hope. You must believe that happiness is possible for you too.

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#56. Beatrice?" he whispered. "Yes," she said, moving so she could maintain eye contact with him until the last possible second. "I'm Beatrice. You were my first kiss. I fell asleep in your arms in your precious orchard." Gabriel sprang forward to stop the elevator door from closing. "Beatrice! Wait!" He

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#57. All the money in the world cannot pay for a life.

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#58. I breathe you," he whispered. "You're everything. You're the air."
-Gabriel

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#59. Addictive personalities can latch on to anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, people ... what if you become addicted to me?"
"I am already addicted to you, Beatrice. Only you're far more dangerous than cocaine.

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#60. Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy.

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#61. She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn't received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once and for all.

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#62. Aristotle said that friendship is only possible between two virtuous people. Therefore, friendship between us is impossible.

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#63. Why not think that sometimes - just sometimes - you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.

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#64. I don't expect you to understand. You're only a magnet for mishap, Miss Mitchell, while I am a magnet for sin.

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#65. I'm honored to have been your first ... But I want to be your last.

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#66. Marriage is the strangest thing. Almost without realizing it, I feel as if our lives and our hearts became knitted together.

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#67. She could feel the heat from his body behind her. It radiated from his chest to her shoulder blades. The silk of his bow tie brushed against her hair, penetrating it, until it grazed across the surface of her neck, causing it to explode into goose-pimples.

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#68. I'm afraid that trouble is not what you do. Trouble is what you are.

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#69. I have become a great many things since you made me your lover.

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#70. Real isn't what you are; it;s something that happens. And right now, you need something good to happen to you.

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#71. He shrugged. "occupational hazard of being a research assistant to a total dick".

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#72. She was his as surely as if he'd branded his name on her skin.

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#73. Light a candle against the darkness...

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#74. You are my greatest virtue and my deepest vice.

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#75. If I lose you, I lose everything. You are the only goodness in my world.

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#76. He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.

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#77. You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose.

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#78. Lillian Hellman wrote a play called The Little Foxes. In it a young girl tells her mother that some people eat the earth, like locusts, and others stand around and watch them do it.

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#79. You toyed with her heart. I know what that's like. I can have compassion for her because of that."
"I met you first," he whispered.
"That doesn't give you license to be cruel.

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#80. When I told you that I was intending to worship you with my body, I meant it. With all my heart. I will never take from you. I will only give. In my bed and outside of it.

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#81. Never Leave." His voice dropped, and he turned to face her.
"I'm more worried about losing you."
He leaned over and kissed her forehead. "Then you have nothing to worry about

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#82. The blue sky blushed to see such passionate lovemaking, while the Florentine sun smiled down, warming the lovers despite the gentle breeze.

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#83. No one deserves mercy. Not deserving it is what makes it mercy.

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#84. She is not my equal; she is my better. She is my sticky little leaf.

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#85. Why would I go look at other women when the most beautiful woman in the world shares my bed every night? he protested, kissing her lightly. - Gabriel Emerson

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#86. We try to touch the stars, but we always fall back to earth.

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#87. Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience - that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain, or wading into the sea of sorrow.

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#88. I don't think you comprehend the depth of my feeling for you. It goes beyond wanting to be near you, or protect you. I want you to be happy, and I want you to be treated with respect.

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#89. He was like a lion, eager to feed but still stalking his prey. He didn't want to scare her off. But she was helpless in her own desire for him.

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#90. Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.

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#91. Having seen you naked, I should demand that the only thing you wear in my presence from now on are these earrings. Anything else is superfluous.

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#92. I will always be conscious of your absence.

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#93. And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.

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