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81 " Honey, you always have a choice,” she says. “The trick is making the right one. "
― Beatriz Williams , Along the Infinite Sea (Schuyler Sisters #3)
82 " The word accountant turned a switch in people's brains, so that anything else you said just made a garbled Blah bla-bla-blah in the air, like Charlie Brown's teacher. "
― Beatriz Williams , The Wicked City (The Wicked City #1)
83 " air, that’s what I murmured as I sidled my way through the crowd, and this was true enough. Certainly I wanted air, and once free of the smokiness and perspiration of the party, I found air in abundance. I also saw a pair of French doors standing open to the evening air, allowing a glimpse of a hallway, and not a footman in sight. Now, it wasn’t as if I meant any harm. I had just sipped champagne "
― Beatriz Williams , The Golden Hour
84 " He reached up and found my hand and caressed my thumb, saying nothing. I gazed down adoringly at his face. A relaxed face now, its great burden of care finally removed. I hadn’t realized how much it had affected him, this fear for me, this certain knowledge that some crisis was coming that he might be powerless to avert. And now that I’d survived it, that he’d rescued me from the fate he’d always feared for me, his soul had taken on the peace of the fully redeemed. It had made for an epic honeymoon "
― Beatriz Williams , Overseas
85 " There's nothing like the scent of your own home, is there? I don't mean how it ordinarily smells, when you're living in it- that smell you don't even notice, because it's always there, and so are you. I mean the peculiar perfume that greets you when you've been away, the delicate balance of wood and paint and plaster and upholstery, stripped of your own living essence: just the substance of the house and nothing else. "
― Beatriz Williams , A Certain Age (A Certain Age, #1)
86 " Only the rich deserve the fair. "
87 " This is the switching point, Caspian,' she whispered in his shirt. 'This is me, switching tracks.' 'I guess that's one thing to call it. A new one on me. We could start a new slang. Let's go back to my place and switch tracks. "
― Beatriz Williams , Tiny Little Thing (Schuyler Sisters, #2)
88 " And there it was, a snap in his chest, the audible noise of his best intentions cracking in half and cracking again, a chain reaction of thick cracks causing hairline cracks, causing the whole goddamned works, the whole vast machinery of his human willpower, to crumble downward into his abdominal cavity, where it lay pretty much useless. "
89 " I subscribed to the general theory that the worst room in the best hotel was better than the best room in a second-rate hotel. "
― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)
90 " I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE ever seen a riot before, up close. It’s not so much a sight or a sound as a feeling, a mayhem. A kaleidoscope, too many sensations all crammed into your brain at once, so you can’t remember what happened when. "
91 " Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. —HELEN ROWLAND "
92 " ...it's rather a cliché, and in some ways sort of a left-handed compliment, to prattle on about inner beauty. And I don't mean in any way to diminish your own looks, which frankly take my breath away. But I can't imagine feeling this way about a mere pretty face. It's everything else, the...the Kateness of you. "
93 " ...I mean, they've got great, twisty plots and all, but the real magic is between the lines. ... "
― Beatriz Williams , The Glass Ocean
94 " You never knew for certain if a man was a hero or a villain or an ordinary human being. "
95 " I think I've done a reasonable job of conforming to the conventions of this world. I've made adjustments, I've modernized, I've adapted. But one thing I refuse to concede is my right to punch the lights out of any man who dares to insult you. Not because you're helpless; God knows you're not. But because no man can stand by idly and see his idol defamed. "
96 " proxy, and by this time the house is filling up at last. "
97 " The lesson sank through the pores of my skin and into my bones. Say as little as possible about yourself. Don’t attract attention. Follow the rules. Be self-sufficient. Never, ever ask for help. "
― Beatriz Williams , Cocoa Beach
98 " constant propping up from the world around her. Because it does things to your head, you know, when your face’s the only thing people seem to care about. I suppose the psychologists have a word for it. In any case, in the end they’re a great deal of trouble, these professional beauties. "
99 " Oh? So what's important? The fictions. The lies we tell to other people, the lies we tell to ourselves. The stories we make of our lives, the heroes we fashion of our own clay, The myths of our own creation. Those are the real stuffing of a person. "
― Beatriz Williams , Her Last Flight
100 " Listen to me, Violet. I want more than this. I want to lie next to you at night and worship you. I want to watch you by day and see what you're capable of, you astonishing woman, you bloody beautiful thing. I want to count every scintillation of you. "