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Dream

“You deserved to have your dream come true.”

“Dreams are for little girls to whisper to each other. They don’t really come true. I’m a fully grown woman now, Frances Catherine. I don’t imagine impossible things.”

“I know about the pain and the loneliness. Your dreams became your shields against the hurt. You can tell me it was just your active imagination, these dreams you now pretend aren’t still important, but I know better. Your dreams saved you from despair. Don’t you dare pretend they don’t matter. I won’t believe you.”

Excerpt From
The Secret
Julie Garwood

Dots

When you can’t connect the dots, get more dots.
Blood Truth by J. R. Ward

Read

Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and hunter, the real evil here was lack of reading time. If they all read more they might freak out less. And if I was going to live forever I was going to have to start a reading list…
Blood Prophecy by Alyxandra Harvey

Cendol

Shyness vs coldness

“You’re carrying on as if I am being chased by hordes of men, when that is obviously not the case. At Stony Cross Park, men went out of their way to avoid my company—and you were one of them!”
The charge, though true, seemed to startle Sebastian. His face became taut, and he stared at her in stony silence. “You hardly made it easy for anyone to approach you,” he said after a moment. “A man’s vanity is more fragile than you might think. It’s easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. You could have exerted yourself a bit, you know. One brief meeting between the two of us…one smile from you…was all the encouragement I would have needed to jump on you like a grouse on laurel.”
Evie stared at him with round eyes, having never considered things in that light before. Was it possible that she herself was partly responsible for her history as a perennial wallflower? “I suppose…” she said reflectively, “I could make more of an effort to overcome my shyness.”

Excerpt From
The Devil in Winter
Lisa Kleypas