Theresa Romain Quotes

#1. As she hung in the seat, Bart stepped back and raked her with a molten gaze. "I imagine you," he said, "with your collar undone. With your habit shirt unbuttoned and your hair unpinned." She swallowed. "That is a lot of undoing.

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#2. He flicked his fingers out, just a whisper of a touch against the back of her hand. "You are brave, Miss Perry."
"I am what I have had to be, Mr. Frost." Her hand turned beneath his, and for a second they were palm against palm. "As are you.

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#3. She did not know what sort of person he was. But she thought---she hoped---that he would hold her trust as the fragile, precious thing it was.

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#4. ... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity.

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#5. You can't hide and pretend to be someone you're not,Pearl. You can never belong to anyone else."
She set her jaw, refusing to flinch or look away. "Anyone besides myself, you mean? That's true. Though it was always true.

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#6. He wanted Charlotte's happiness more than his own. But how much greater would his own be if they were together? Somehow, sometime---maybe when she flirted with him over sour ale, maybe when she bandaged his arm---she had come to rest upon his heart.
Somehow, he had come to love her.

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#7. You're babbling," she said. "Go back to the part about making a home with someone you love."
His lips curved. "Did you like that part?"
"I did," she admitted, "like that part."
"Good. I like it too.

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#8. Awful fondness you people have for knives. It's really not right.

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#9. Any place could be a cage. And maybe, with the right person, any place could be a home.

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