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Madeleine Brent
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Quotes by Madeleine Brent
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Lucy, you’re as transparent as a pane of glass, and there’s not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you’re a mystery to me.
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When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you?
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Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault.
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Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women.
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Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life.
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At a time like this with damage and disorder everywhere, no tale is too absurd to be believed and even decent people seek something on which to vent their anger.
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Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.
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