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said once that you were not my equal, but my better.
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I'm no longer the prey. I'm the predator.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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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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Sylvain Reynard |
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Cassita vulneratus. Raven awoke with a start.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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I would like you to talk to someone." Julia lowered her eyes? "I talk to you." "I meant someone who isn't an ass."
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She promised new, tantalizing diversions. She whispered words of raw, intense pleasure the likes of which he'd never experienced. He was intrigued. She had the power to drag his mind into his body and keep it there, unable to think or worry. And that was how he found himself in the basement of her town house in Toronto, naked, restrained, and on his knees. She confused his senses by both pleasing and punishing him. With every strike, all hi..
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Sin isn't something that is attracted to a human being, Professor. It's the other way round." "Not in my experience. Sin seems to find me even when I'm not looking for it. And I'm not very good at resisting temptation."
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You can't control all of life's circumstances, but you can control your reactions to them.
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El sentido del humor de Dios afianzaba el funcionamiento del universo. Los pecadores jugaban un papel en la redencion de otros pecadores. La fe, la esperanza y la caridad triunfaban sobre la incredulidad, la desesperacion y el odio, mientras El observaba y sonreia.
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God wants to rescue us, not destroy us. you don't have to be afraid of being happy, thinking that he wants to take that happiness away from you. that's not who he is.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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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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Gabriel slowly raised his head and stared at her. Ten graduate students inhaled as one and began to move backward in their chairs, fearful that he might explode, or that a dagger from his eye might fly out and gut them.
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The point is that the foundation that undergirds the act is one of mutual respect and giving- not taking or using.
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I am the monster, hiding in the darkness, the intruder had whispered.
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Everyone is pretty enough in the dark," she whispered. "No, they are not." He kissed her before pulling back abruptly, willing himself to stop."
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dark
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love isn't secretive or one-sided." "It isn't," he said fiercely. "Then tell me." He kissed her forehead. "Je t'aim."
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Sylvain Reynard |
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His declaration was so honest and so frightening, the words burned into her like fire.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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Wrath is one of the seven deadly sins," she remarked, turning away from him to gaze out the window, trying to alleviate the burning sensation in her middle. He laughed bitterly. "Remarkably, I have all seven; don't bother counting. Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, lust." She lifted an eyebrow but did not turn around. "Somehow, I doubt that." "I don't expect you to understand. You're only a magnet for mishap, while I am a magn..
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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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Sylvain Reynard |
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Queria ser la musa de alguien. Queria ser venerada y adorada en cuerpo y alma. Queria ser la Beatriz de un Dante apuesto y noble y habitar con el para siempre en el Paraiso. Queria vivir una vida que rivalizara con la belleza de las ilustraciones de Botticelli.
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Durante estos meses no ha habido nadie mas --asevero--. No queria a nadie que no fueras tu. Pero si me dijeras que te has enamorado de otra persona y que eres feliz, no insistiria. Por mucho que me doliera. --Hizo una mueca y susurro--: Siempre te querre, Julianne, me quieras tu o no. Eres mi cielo. Y mi infierno.
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She knew that upon closer inspection Gabriel would make a lousy poker player. He had too many tells, too many ways he revealed his inner turmoil. He shut his eyes when he was close to losing his temper. He rubbed his face when he was frustrated. He paced when he was distressed or afraid. Rachel watched him begin to pace and wondered what he was afraid of.
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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. Why should her life be any different? Why should she expect special, favored treatment? Even Mother Teresa suffered, and she was a saint.
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She just wanted to be left alone to lick her wounds, like a puppy that had been kicked repeatedly.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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I am not a good man. I'm not a man at all. But I love you and my love is certainly steadfast.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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She would have done anything for Gabriel, the man shh spent the night with in the woods, if he' d give her even a single indication that he wanted her. She would have descended to Hell and searched for him, looking until she found him.She would have stormed the gates and dragged him back. She would have been Sam to his Frodo and followed him into the bowels ofMount Doom.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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She'd broken him open and taken his emotional virginity.
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Dime lo que deseas. La noche es tuya. Puedes ordenarme lo que quieras. --No quiero ordenarte nada --respondio ella, besandolo en los labios--. Solo quiero que me demuestres que me amas. --Julianne, te quiero con los cuatro tipos de amor. Pero esta noche es una celebracion del eros.
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Estoy segura. Gabriel no es perfecto, pero es perfecto para mi. Somos el uno para el otro.
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La gracia no es algo que nos merezcamos, Gabriel --dijo Julia suavemente--. Es algo que nace del amor. Dios llena el mundo de segundas oportunidades, hojitas y misericordia, aunque no todos las ven ni las quieren.
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Noah released the raven and the raven returned. If I were able to hope, I'd hope you would return to me. Good night, Cassita.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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Women are mysterious, he mused. She laughed, In what way? They're a study in contrast: soft and strong, fierce and gentle. They can do everything, of course, and yet one feels compelled to do everything for them.
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In other words, Botticelli's ideal women look like women and not boys. They're soft and curvaceous. Healthy and rounded. Women of the size figured in this painting were considered beautiful for centuries, if not millennia. They were the aesthetic ideal during my lifetime and long after." He brought his mouth to her neck before whispering, "My ideal hasn't changed."
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botticelli
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william-to-raven
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If they love one another to the exclusion of everything and everyone else, then their love is pagan. They've made idols of one another and their love. 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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Sylvain Reynard |
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She thinks most people fail to reason at all. The way she describes the world today, most people are monkeys who happen to wear clothes. On occasion.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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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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Sylvain Reynard |
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I'm afraid that trouble is not what you do. Trouble is what you are.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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I don' mean to be at all...St. Francis of Assisi or something, but anyone can shout obscenities. Why should I become like her? 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. Rather than trying to stop evil with more evil. Not that I'm good. I don't think I'..
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She was silent as she felt the energy between them shift, like a serpent circling back on itself, swallowing itself whole, anger and passion feeding off one another.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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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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Sylvain Reynard |
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The cycle of abuse interspersed with occasional bouts of kindness keeps you stuck, waiting and hoping for the kindness to return. And it does, on occasion, only to be swept away.
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Sylvain Reynard |
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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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Sylvain Reynard |
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Who would be so cruel?" "You ask this question after the Shoah? After countless instances of genocide? Human beings can be incredibly cruel."
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Sylvain Reynard |
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Que las heridas se curan, pero las cicatrices nunca desaparecen del todo. No puedes borrar el pasado, pero no tienes por que permitir que te domine.
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Sylvain Reynard |