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1 " Apple Tree Inn, the nightly gathering place of all Winslow residents, and in many ways the core of the town's happiness, always had a warm fire crackling on the hearth and was known for its good cider and company. "
― Clara Diane Thompson , Five Glass Slippers
2 " She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness. Nothing at all. "
3 " Light, show yourself pure and strong,Save a man from evil's throng,Take a form, small and white,Give this girl the strength to fight. "
4 " Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.~The Moon Master "
5 " Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle. "
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl , Five Glass Slippers
6 " Stuffing one muffin in his mouth and a second in his pocket, Auguste slipped into a side passage and away. He'd just take a wander 'round the city and hope some assassin made a merciful move. "
7 " I cozied an apple in my hand and tried the weight of it against my palm, contemplating whether or not beaning a judge with half-rotten fruit would qualify as contempt of the court. Quite probably. "
8 " We are not in a foul humor, Belkin. We are in a corrupt-tempered moon. There is a difference, you know. "
9 " There was more than one thing wrong with the whole story anyway. Had no one thought it remotely suspicious? Unhappy man marries beautiful woman. Beautiful woman shapes up rather nasty. Man unhappier than ever; woman unhappy as well. Three short weeks... Oops, he's dead! Oh, poor, dear child. Let's see what we can do with her. Free labor! "
10 " We are not in a foul humor, Belkin. We are in a corrupt-tempered mood. There is a difference, you know. "
11 " King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while. "
12 " None of the etiquette books he studied addressed this situation. Maybe he could write one: How to Behave When the Girl You Adore Runs Away from You at Your Own Royal Ball. "
13 " He was almost certain Arella had smiled at him last night. Well, perhaps not at him, technically. But she had smiled in his presence, and that was an improvement. "
14 " It’s time you met Mother,” said Marius. It was about as far from a declaration of undying passion as a man could get. "
15 " Even as she was about to read the mysterious, tortured hero's declaration of undying passion to the piquant young heroine, Rosalind found herself obliged instead to look up into Marius's decidedly un-mysterious, non-tortured face. "
16 " She would die faking her death. All she could think about was how much Marius would laugh at her funeral. "
17 " The smells of oil and human sweat hung in the air, along with other acrid odors that were not meant to be in one’s nostrils. "
