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“Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It

“I'll have no husband, if you be not he.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It

“She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to maker her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.”
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“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”
― As You Like It
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”
― As You Like It

“He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.
Is that the first sign of love?
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.”
― The Lost Wife
Is that the first sign of love?
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.”
― The Lost Wife
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