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1 " Although Fancy had the soul of a dreamer, she also had both feet planted on the ground. She had seen enough of the world to know the way it worked. "
― Grace Callaway , The Return of the Duke (Game of Dukes, #5)
2 " Time and again, he’d drilled it into her that those who travelled and those who didn’t belonged to different worlds. "
3 " It was clear that Miss Sheridan not only lacked social polish, she didn’t even know what it was. Yet something about the way she looked at him, with wonder and vulnerability, tugged at his gut. "
4 " He mulled over the strange lightness he felt in her presence. Her endearing candor and odd mix of shrewdness and innocence "
5 " Breathe in, breathe out. You can’t die from ’umiliation. "
6 " The irony wasn’t lost upon Severin that for years he’d fought for wealth believing that it would win him the woman of his dreams. It hadn’t been enough with Imogen. Now that he had riches and was a damned duke, it still wasn’t enough, this time for the daughter of a peddler. When will I bloody be enough? a voice inside him raged. "
7 " It struck him now that Fancy was the only woman who’d ever made him feel that he was…enough, just as he was. "