“Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“Will you give me another chance?” Robert repeated. Smiling, Dougless kissed him on the cheek. “No,” she said, “although I thank you very much for the offer.”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand.”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“One advantage women throughout time have had is that the little boy in men always remember a time when women were all-powerful.”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance of medicine, and constant and ever-present death to haunt them.”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“Once upon a time...
...as a fair maiden lay weeping upon a cold tombstone, her heartfelt desire was suddenly made real before her: tall, broad of shoulder, attired in gleaming silver and gold, her knight in shining armor had come to rescue his damsel in distress....”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“Had I access to what is mine, I would shower you with jewels.”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“What manner of country was this that worshiped children to the extent that they were treated as royalty?”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“After a few dates, he’d propose marriage over a bottle of wine.”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“but Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks—most”
― Jude Deveraux, quote from A Knight in Shining Armor
“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.”
― bell hooks, quote from We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
“Don't think I'll look after you, though-the world would be better off with one less princess."
"I'm not a princess," I huffed, beating my brain for some worthy retort.
"A queen then?"
"No! That's not what I meant-"
"Oh, an empress. I see. Pardon me, Your Majesty." He swooped into a crouched bow, and when his torso sprang back up,a smile floated at the edge of his lips.
"N-no, not an empress either. I-I'm just..." The more I stuttered, the more pompous his smile became.
"You're exasperating," I finally groaned.”
― Susan Dennard, quote from Something Strange and Deadly
“Le pedí un último beso, ya que yo todavía estaba enamorada de él y necesitaba saborearlo por última vez. Nos besamos y no quería que terminara. No había esa pasión abrumadora, sólo una triste aceptación de que las cosas habían terminado. Pero fue en ese momento en que sólo quería que dijera, “espera, todavía te quiero mucho y he cometido un terrible error.” Pensé, por favor, sólo llévame de vuelta a tus brazos y volvamos a ser lo que éramos…
Pero no lo hizo. Mi corazón dolió durante meses.”
― Ali Harris, quote from The First Last Kiss
“But love is so much more than words.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from A Lancaster County Christmas
“God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.”
― Henry T. Blackaby, quote from Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda
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