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1 " At night I dream of things I scoff at by day. "
― Jaclyn Dolamore , Magic Under Glass (Magic Under, #1)
2 " Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry. "
3 " They were full of mysteries and secrets, like... like poems turned into landscapes.""'Poems turned into landscapes.'" he murmured with a slight smile. "And what of Vestenveld's gardens? Do you see poems in them?""Your gardens are like your country's poetry. Very frilly and organized. "
4 " I furrowed my eyebrows."Are you looking at my bosom, sir?"The eyes snapped back up. "At such a serious moment? What do you take me for?""A rogue, I believe." I tried not to smile. "
5 " How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength! "
― Jaclyn Dolamore , Magic Under Stone (Magic Under, #2)
6 " Her best smile seemed to be for him alone. "
7 " It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger. "
― Jaclyn Dolamore , Between the Sea and Sky
8 " In my heart, I love books, I love writing. I love the lines of letters on a page. "
9 " If one spends too many hours in solitude, one starts to emote for one’s own benefit. "
10 " Once you commit to something, you just manage through each moment. And nothing truly awful happened. The voyage over was uneventful. I found work right away, just not very good work. The worst thing wasn't something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful. "
11 " Even now, I hoped he would take my hand, and when he didn't, I felt my empty hand as if it were missing a finger. "
12 " You ought to use a little of that siren song on Alan, my pearl. The boy needs to loosen his cravat. "
13 " The worst thing wasn’t something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful. "
14 " But it hurt. It was like a thousand tiny cuts on her soul. "
― Jaclyn Dolamore , Dark Metropolis (Dark Metropolis, #1)
15 " Sometimes I see her face in my dreams," he said. "I can't wait to remember the woman it belongs to. "
16 " I don’t want to become a queen to someone’s king,” Violet said fiercely. “I want to be queen on my own. "
17 " The country is not there to lull you any more than I was. The people there don’t think they are different, they are going about their normal business, and sometimes I felt that, while you respected me more than other men, you romanticized me. Someone or someplace that is romanticized can’t be real. "
18 " We were a mess of cultures, and nothing matched, but I found it all the more fun for that. "
19 " It was a powerful feeling, to comfort someone. "
20 " If you take all my memories, you can tell me anything, but you can't make me believe it. "
