Victoria Alexander Quotes

#1. My father once told me love is magic, sir.

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#2. The only way to become the man I was always supposed to become was to serve a higher cause than myself.'
'You served it with your life, and, in some ways mine as well.

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#3. No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.

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#4. And even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have.

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#5. And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before.

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#6. Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

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#7. Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

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#8. Her heart leapt, which made no sense at all. This was not to be an affair of the heart. There would be affection certainly, but nothing more. Apparently her heart wasn't aware of her plans. Odd, she'd never known it to be rebellious before.

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#9. My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.

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#10. An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.

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#11. Then I shall be devastated. My heart will be crushed as thoroughly as dust beneath your feet". "Oh, we can't have that". Her eyes widened in an innocent manner he didn't believe for a moment. "I quite detest dust".

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#12. As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.

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#13. Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.

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#14. When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

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#15. Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. Indeed, it takes a great deal of strength to accept someone else's acknowledgment of their mistakes.

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#16. You want to kiss me now,Matthew. I can see it in the look in your eyes."
"I want to do considerably more than kiss you." He grinned wickedly. "And that too you should see in my eyes.

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#17. Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard ... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.

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#18. There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

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#19. rang through the room. She stopped in mid-step and whirled to face him. "Do not

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#20. It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

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#21. I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a
Mother!
I was going to say arm.

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#22. Women, intelligent or not, were rarely reasonable.

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#23. She prefers men who appreciate her mind as well as her appearance." "Yes, she would, wouldn't she?" He thought for a moment. "Is she dreadfully intelligent?" Amusement twinkled in Veronica's eyes but her tone was somber. "Dreadfully." "That can't be helped, I suppose." He nodded. "Anything else?

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#24. Leave every lady with the impression of friendship, and each and every gentleman with an unrealistic hope of much more.

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#25. In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our connections with other people-those who listen to our stories and, by doing so, bear witness with us.

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#26. It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.
Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior.

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#27. Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all

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#28. She would not go meekly to that fate. If the rest of her life was meant to be miserable and forlorn, at least she could choose the path that would take her there.

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#29. Yes, well, there's something to be said for damsels who need rescuing. Thomas's gaze strayed back to Marianne. She would never need rescuing. And wasn't there something to be said for that as well?

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#30. She was all the delights of heaven and the fires of hell at once.

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