Jenna Bayley-Burke · 248 pages
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“Love. It is an incredible sensation. An amazing gift. All consuming and yet as light as a whisper. Once you've been in love you don't ever want to find yourself out of it.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“Never give someone more than you’re willing to lose,”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“That brief moment of being loved is worth any pain you have to endure at losing it.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“The man had a body that made her want to learn how to carve marble.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“A number of the wrought-iron fences that encircled the courtyards and gardens of the homes were painted the color of gold on their European-inspired spikes and finials.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“This place had been here long before him. It would go on sighing and breathing and being itself after he had gone, the land lapping on and on, watching, waiting, getting on with its own life.”
― Kate Grenville, quote from The Secret River
“Maybe I'll just stand here for the half hour and pretend to be a statue. “You were given an order, sub,” he said softly.
Or not.”
― Cherise Sinclair, quote from Lean on Me
“No. No, you're not like him," she spat. "You're your very own brand of fucked up, Lucien.”
― Kitty French, quote from Knight & Stay
“I found it impossible to tear myself away from my station and plunge into Hungary. I feel the same disability now; a momentary reluctance to lay hands on this particular fragment of the future; not out of fear, but because, within arm's reach and still intact, this future seemed, and still seems, so full of promised marvels.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, quote from A Time of Gifts
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