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1 " They were talking about things that didn’t matter a fig, not with the huge yawning grief burning a hole in his chest because of what had happened to her. To Josie. His Josie, now. "
― Eloisa James , Pleasure for Pleasure (Essex Sisters, #4)
2 " Thirty is a watershed year for men. If they’re going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don’t, it’s too late. "
3 " For a moment he saw everything in her eyes: a love that would last their entire lives, a vulnerability that would never go away, and, where he was concerned, a deep selflessness that made her the most wonderful, funny, intelligent woman he knew. "
4 " From the Earl of Hellgate's Memoirs, Chapter the Twenty-SixthI realized then that I had mistaken the nature of love. Love has nothing to do with desire; it's the quest for the divine, found on earth. It's finding a woman whose soul preserves a shard of heaven, and worshipping her...worshipping at her feet. I was a new man. "
5 " thirty is a watershed year for men. If they’re going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don’t, it’s too late. So you mustn’t hanker after men in their twenties. "
6 " They were outside. It was oddly quiet, with just a muffled roar from behind the closed door, as if the ocean were contained on that side. "
7 " I certainly don’t want a husband!” Griselda said. “Of course you do,” Sylvie stated. “Every woman wants a husband; they are so necessary to one’s comfort, like a flannel night rail in the winter. Necessary, but tedious to acquire. "
