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GLOVES OFF by Stephanie Archer

When my gaze drops to the flowers in his hand, I feel that sharp, pleasant tug again. Soft, pretty white petals, like a cross between a dogwood and a rose.

I clear my throat. “Gardenia?”

He nods.

That’s what I was hoping for, but that’s what I was also afraid of. Gardenia—secret love.

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LADY LUCK by Kristen Ashley

“This is it, Team Walker, you and me. We want somethin’, we find a way to get it. We hit a rough patch, we find a way to get over it. We face a challenge, we find a way to beat it. It’s good, we savor it. What I’m sayin’ is, this team is a winner. We never forget to celebrate the victories and we get a lotta those because we never admit defeat.”

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"The Queen's power is going stronger […] There's something different this time...about Emma."

DAVID OAKES as GODWIN, EARL OF WESSEX LAURA BERLIN as EMMA OF NORMANDY VIKINGS: VALHALLA S3 (2022-2024)

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Jack O'Connell  in “The North Water” (2021)

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Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....

Sinners (2025)

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Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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books I’ve read in 2024 - no. 33

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

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POLDARK (2015-2019)

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30 Days of Period Drama Women (13/30) TAMLA KARI as CONSTANCE BONACIEUX THE MUSTKETEERS (2014-2016)

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MORNING GLORY by LAVYRLE SPENCER

"Nobody ever loved you before?" She tenderly cupped his cheek. "Well, I do.”

His eyes slid closed and he turned his mouth hard into her palm, clasping it to his face. "Nobody. Ever," he reiterated. "Not in my whole life. No mother, no woman, no man.”

"Well, your life ain't even half over yet, Will Parker. The second half's gonna be much better'n the first, I promise."

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She was amazed to discover that when he was saying, 'As you wish,' what he meant was, 'I love you.'

The Princess Bride (1987) dir. by Rob Reiner

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"He hasn't been with anyone, you idiot. Do you know what the girls back at tthe White Cathedral called him? Beznako." A lost cause.

Ruin and Rising, Chapter 13

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DANCING ON COALS by ELLEN O’CONNELL

If a man could taste wind and fire, they would taste like Katherine. When he stood in high places looking down on things made small by distance, he tried to feel what the eagle felt soaring free on the wind. He was an earthbound man. Only his spirit could ever soar, and only Katherine raised him so high.

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EYES OF SILVER EYES OF GOLD by ELLEN O’CONNELL

He wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while.

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The Night Agent (Season 2) Peter & Rose

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XO KITTY (2025) I 2.08

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Larry Russell & Marian Brook The Gilded Age 2.8