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1 " My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones. "
― , First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet #1)
2 " There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness. "
― , Simply Magic (Simply Quartet #3)
3 " Why do I want to run from happiness? "
― , More Than a Mistress (Mistress Trilogy #1)
4 " He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant. "
― , Then Comes Seduction (Huxtable Quintet, #2)
5 " She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry. "
― , Slightly Wicked (Bedwyn Saga, #2)
6 " And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all. He disliked her, he resented her, he disapproved of almost everything about her, yet he was head over ears in love with her, like a foolish schoolboy.He wondered grimly what he was going to do about it.He was not amused.Or in any way pleased. "
― , Slightly Dangerous (Bedwyn Saga, #6)
7 " I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.''Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy. "
8 " It was now twenty minutes past four in the morning, allowing for the fact that the clock in the library of his town house was four minutes slow, as it had been for as far back as he could remember.He eyed it with a frown of concentration. Now that he came to think about it, he must have it set right one of these days.Why should a clock be forced to go throught its entire existence four minutes behind the rest of the world? It was not logical.The trouble was though, that if the clock were suddenly right, he would be forever confused and arriving four minutes early -- or did he mena late? -- for meals and various other appointments. That would agitate his servants and cause consternation in the kitchen.It was probably better to leave the clock as it was. "
9 " But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope. "
― , A Matter of Class
10 " Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan "
― , The Temporary Wife
11 " Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway? "
― , The Devil's Web (Web, #3)
12 " You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you. "
13 " Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on. "
― , A Secret Affair (Huxtable Quintet, #5)
14 " Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all. "
― , Simply Perfect (Simply Quartet, #4)
15 " The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of? "
16 " Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.Tomorrow he would begin to set her free. "
17 " I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. "
18 " The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful? "
19 " Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell? "
20 " Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity?How could she have felt like that without love?Was love essential?Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life?If it did, it was too late now for her to find it.Must she make do with this instead, then?Only this?Pleasure without love? "