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81 " You want to get married,' she said slowly. 'In two weeks.' He nodded. 'Only because I can't think of a respectable way to do it sooner. "
― Julie Berry , Lovely War
82 " Sometimes happiness is just about more than a body can bear. "
83 " Smart means knowing when to talk and when to shut up. Even if you’re right. "
84 " I’d never call it great literature, but I enjoyed Tarzan of the Apes. And Kipling’s Jungle Book. In school, I was partial to Macbeth over Julius Caesar. "
85 " I’d eat a picnic someplace wild and hot. The Congo, perhaps, or the Amazon rain forest. "
86 " But after two months had passed, time, work, and friendship brought Aubrey to a place where it was possible to hurt, and to laugh, in the same day. He never would’ve guessed he could. "
87 " I envy the mortals. It’s because they’re weak and damaged that they can love. She shakes her head. We need nothing. They’re lucky to need each other. "
88 " And so James went from stranger to patriot, hero, bravely shouldering his duty to God, King, and Country. Hazel went from stranger and pianist to reason why the war mattered at all, symbol of all that was pure and beautiful and worth dying for in a broken world. "
89 " If I couldn't knit these two together by the end of a second dance, Zeus might as well make Poseidon the god of love, and I'd go look after the fishes. "
90 " THANK GOD," sighs Ares.Aphrodite says: "You're welcome. "
91 " If you think I can live without you, Miss Windicott," James said, "You don't know me at all. "
92 " I waited once to kiss you and almost lost my chance. I waited for the war to end before asking you to marry me, and you nearly died. If the war's taught me anything at all, it's that life is short. I won't waste any more of it waiting for you. "
93 " Grief is not a contest "
94 " It’s not easy, overseeing love in its toddler phase. It’s a noisy, chattering, babbling thing. "
95 " You’re the King of Stupid, is what you are.” “Then you’re my loyal subject. "
96 " Hephaestus wishes he had a bailiff who could club this unruly spectator on the head. But that's probably not what bailiffs are supposed to do. "
97 " When I trip and fall, then?” She hoped this would come across as bit of a joke. He pressed his hand a shade more firmly into her back. “ I won’t let you fall.”Nor did he. "
98 " Judge, jury, and executioner?" protests Ares. "This kangaroo court is a sham. "
99 " He had stumbled upon my gates. I am grateful to my guests. "
100 " With the Great War in its fourth year, Britons needed cake. "