A Lady for a Duke
Alexis Hall
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I would say"—he shaped the words close to her mouth, as if each of them was its own kiss, a private prayer—"I love you as a man loves a woman, but we both know that love is not bound by such narrow terms. So instead let me simply tell you that I love you. I love you with the unfading flame of my friendship. With every drop of ardour in my blood. I love you with my soul, as some reserve their faith for absent gods. I love you as I believe in what is right and hope for what is good. I love you with everything I am and ever was—and if you will only let me, with every day that comes, and every self that I could ever be.”
“I am not sure love unshown is really love at all. What good does caring for a person do if you're never there when they need you?”
“He wanted to look at her like he wanted to breathe, like she was breath and he was drowning, and every moment of his not looking was a struggle towards the thing he most needed. Except once he looked, looking would not be enough. Then he would have to talk to her—draw the delicate spool of her thoughts from that smiling mouth, until he knew all the colours of her. Until he understood how a stranger could seem so familiar to him. How something in her could call to a part of him he had long thought dead. How it was possible she could feel like homecoming to a man who had never before had any sense of home.”
“Please don't laugh, Miss Carroll. If you're laughing, you must be smiling, and I don't think I can climb back up to see it." [...] "My smile," she called out, "would not be worth such exertion." "You are quite wrong." "Even so, it is hardly an uncommon commodity." "That does not lessen its value.”
“I don’t see what use we can be to others if we must deny our own most fundamental selves. We all have the right to be recognised for who we are.”
“Please don't leave me again," he whispered. "I think I could learn to live without you, but I have no wish to.”
“Don’t try to tell me that time is a healer because time also kills people.”
“When I am with you, I feel about as far from anything that has ever hurt me as it is possible to be.”
“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
“So instead let me simply tell you that I love you. I love you with the unfading flame of my friendship. With every drop of ardour in my blood. I love you with my soul, as some reserve their faith for absent gods. I love you as I believe in what is right and hope for what is good. I love you with everything I am and ever was—and if you will only let me, with every day that comes, and every self that I could ever be.”
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healing, time-heals, heal, time
