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M_ALCOTT
" ’Tis by their words that men betray themselves, and often by the smallest of their actions, which ye’ll rarely see unless ye hold your tongue and use your eyes instead. Ye’ll learn more of a man if ye look at his face when he’s looking…
M_ALCOTT
“See now, nothing that we do in life is easy. Your pawn will capture mine in his next move, and yet that move will leave ye open to attack then from my bishop three moves hence. Each choice we make has an effect for good or ill, for all we…
M_ALCOTT
“So you would not let him bear that shame, yet you yourself would shoulder it? You need not always stand and take a whipping you do not deserve.”-Anna(speaking to Edmund)
M_ALCOTT
“I’m not good with fragile things. I’m careless, and I break them, and I lose them, but I…I’d take care of you.”-Edmund(speaking to Anna)
the city had survived, as it had always done: endured the changes of its name and government, stood fast through war and siege and revolution, and through all of that had managed still to shelter and encourage art and dance and life and…
“Never let him fool you into thinking that he’s calm, it’s all an act. . . . it isnae in his nature to sit still, he’s only taught himself the trick of it.”
It surprised me that I hadn’t noticed him earlier. I usually didn’t miss noticing good-looking men. And on top of it all, he’d been reading a book, and a man doing that didn’t often escape my attention.
Men, so Anna had observed, replied to threats in one of two ways, much like bears. They either dropped and turned and scuttled off, or else they stood their ground and bellowed back and tried to make themselves look larger.
If we cannae be what we were born to be, the whole of it, we die a little on the inside, every day we live the lie.
"You should never give your hand to any man unless he also holds your heart."