Itโs funny, but I was just thinking I wouldnโt mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,โ said Gideon. โJust you and me and Cousin Sofa.
Kerstin GierTrue love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.
Kerstin GierEverything all right, Gwyneth?โ asked Gideon, raising one eyebrow. โYou look nervous. Would you like a cigarette to calm your nerves? What was your favorite brand, did you say? Marlboros?โ I could only stare at him speechlessly. โLeave her alone,โ said Xemerius. โCanโt you see sheโs unhappy in love, bonehead? All because of you! What are you doing here, anyway?
Kerstin GierWhat do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!
Kerstin GierWhenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,โ she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.
Kerstin GierHe took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.
Kerstin Gier