Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most." ~ Hardy Cates

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.