Shana Abe Quotes

• I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

  Shana Abe

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Shana Abe (2006). “The Dream Thief”, p.183, Bantam

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• I want. . . a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

  Shana Abe

  Fall, Heart, Hands

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• I've wanted you from the moment I first saw you in the museum. Before that. I wanted every part of you from the first time I felt you, your presence. I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that, and I want it badly. Every time I look at you, I want it. So you're going to have to become used to that, Rue. It won't change." (Christoff to Rue)

  Shana Abe

  Kissing, Names, Museums

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• Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes." Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart.

  Shana Abe

  Home, Heart, Cities

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• She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

  Shana Abe

  Spirit, Brilliant, Snowflake

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• My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for.

  Shana Abe

  Years, Two, Signatures

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• I want to love, and be loved.

  Shana Abe

  Want

  Shana Abe (2006). “The Dream Thief”, p.183, Bantam

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• I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.

  Shana Abe

  Hands, Irrational, Catch Me

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• Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.' 'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days.

  Shana Abe

  Girl, School, Son

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• All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

  Shana Abe

  Effort

  Shana Abe (2005). “The Smoke Thief”, p.136, Bantam

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• Trust you? Rue--trust you? You counterfeited your own death rather than wed me. You told me you'd rather die than stay in Darkfrith. I can't--I don't know how to fix that. I don't know how to mend it. Tell me." He took a step toward her. "Tell me, and I'll do it.

  Shana Abe

  Rue, Steps, Dies

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