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1 " Gus: "Do not change the subject." --Elijah: "Love, where you're concerned, that subject is always foremost in my thoughts. You are fortunate. I restrained myself last night."Gus: "Restrained? Five times is restrained?"Elijah: Black eyes met hers. They were hard and feverishly hot. "Aye. "
― Elisa Braden , Anything but a Gentleman (Rescued from Ruin, #7)
2 " Loving someone meant standing in stinging rain and bellowing wind, knowing how much it hurt and doing it anyway. Because the one who needed shelter mattered more. "
3 " From where she stood, she could see the white of his shirt, the gray of his waistcoat, the black slash of his brows. She could measure the width of his shoulders and the muscles of his arms as he wrote. His wrists were thick and solid. His hands looked bigger than her head.She wondered if she might disgrace herself by swooning.Good God. The man was twice a normal human’s size. He was wider than Mr. Duff and much, much more muscular. His forearms, dusted liberally with hair the same black as the close-shorn strands upon his head, bulged and flexed and rippled in fascinating fashion. "
4 " Life can change quite suddenly, my dear boy. Just when you suppose you have accounted for every probability, the odds turn on their heads as if they recognize your arrogance and mean to prove you wrong. "
5 " Gus: "Don not change the subject." -- Elijah: ""Love, where you're concerned, that subject is always foremost in my thoughts. You are fortunate. I restrained myself last night."Gus: "Restrained? Five times is restrained?"Elijah: Black eyes met hers. They were hard and feverishly hot. "Aye. "