"Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess."

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Source : Elizabeth Hoyt (2013). “Duke of Midnight: Number 6 in series”, p.205, Hachette UK

Elizabeth Hoyt

#Love Quotes #Cousin Quotes #Seductive Quotes

“Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."”
“I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.”
“Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.”
“The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.”
“If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.”
“I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.”
“It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic.”

Source : William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books
“The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.”

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