Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands.

And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.


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We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin ...
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A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, to...
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Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.
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Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
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If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference betwe...
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You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.
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I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down ...
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You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

"And it's a shallow person who...
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Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that fir...
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I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to ...
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Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.
He nodded, comically sad. "The few g...
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Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not."
"Doesn't she? Don't...
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Thus went my first Court Day.
I think I'm going to puke.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
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Funfunfunfunfun!
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He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatu...
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Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl...
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Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.
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Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.
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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper
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Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for sayin...
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing ...
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I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.
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A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. TAMORA PIERCE Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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cheek.
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Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be alwa...
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I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps mi...
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I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
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What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?
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You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.
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Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accus...
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Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and t...
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I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My desce...
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You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she ret...
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You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly.

"...
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I will tell the stork-man.
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I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
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You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused.

She sat back and stared at him. Sh...
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We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I ...
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When I say I want time to think, I want time to think!"
Jonathan sighed wearily. "All right, yo...
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
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At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
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I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
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Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
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Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
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You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
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