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Kindness is never wasted.
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Why not think that sometimesβjust sometimesβyou can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.
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Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.
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Look at me. Look into my eyes." His eyes fixed on hers as they fluttered open.
"I'll give you anything. My body, my soul, Take them. Take everything.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Iβve always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things.
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Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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If I have a soul, it's yours.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I want you forever, not just for tonight.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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She is not my equal; she is my better. She is my sticky little leaf.
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All believers are hypocrites because none of us live up to our beliefs.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Iβm going to be thrown out of Paradise tomorrow, Beatrice. Our only hope is that you find me afterward. Look for me in Hell.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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How long did you want me to stay?β
βForever.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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For the rest of my life, I'll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I found my hope when I found you.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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When I told you that I was intending to worship you with my body, I meant it. With all my heart. I will never take from you. I will only give. In my bed and outside of it.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from?
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay. If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an istant. And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry.
-Rachel to Julia
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Being without you, Julianne, is like enduring an endless night without stars.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Truth sets one free, but love casts out fear.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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I want to be your first and your last. I love you, Julianne. I offer you my heart and my life.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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You canβt do it, can you? Your skin remembers me, and so does your heart. You told them to forget, but they canβt. Remember me, Beatrice. Remember your first.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I wandered in the darkness looking for something better, something real. I found you, and I'll be damned if I'm going to lose you.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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We need to see with our hearts and not our eyes.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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When a man kneels before a woman, itβs a gesture of chivalry. When a woman kneels before a man, itβs unseemly.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Sometimes people, when left alone, can hear their own hatefulness for themselves. Sometimes goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I'm sorry you don't want to know me anymore. I will spend the rest of my life regretting the fact that I wasted my second chance to know you. And I will always be conscious of your absence."- Gabriel to Julia.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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For if you truly believe that kindness is never wasted, you have to hold tightly to that belief even when the kindness is thrown back in your face
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience β that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain, or wading into the sea of sorrow.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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And the Angelfucker makes his move.
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After all we've shared, I just want to hold you and be close. Rest in my arms and know that I love you.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I love you far too much, I'm sure. But I don't know how to love you any other way.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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You are my sticky little leaf. My beautiful, sad, sticky little leaf, and I want to see you happy and whole.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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That was before I decided to bring an angel to my bed.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I would have done whatever it took to save you.' His voice and his expression were grave. 'Even if that meant I had to spend eternity in Hell.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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When I am an old man and I can remember nothing else, I will remember this moment. The first time my eyes beheld an angel in the flesh. βI will remember your body and your eyes, your beautiful face and breasts, your curves and this.β He traced his hand around her navel before dragging it lightly to the top of her lower curls. βI will remember your scent and your touch and how it felt to love you. But most of all, I will remember how it felt to gaze at true beauty, both inside and out. For you are fair, my beloved, in soul and in body, generous of spirit and generous of heart. And I will never see anything this side of heaven more beautiful tham you
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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You could have any woman you want, Gabriel.β
He furrowed his eyebrows. βI only want you.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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So drop the Mr. Rochester-Mr. Darcy-Heathcliff British stuck-uppity and treat her like the treasure she is
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Never Leave." His voice dropped, and he turned to face her.
"I'm more worried about losing you."
He leaned over and kissed her forehead. "Then you have nothing to worry about
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Grace isn't something we deserve, Gabriel," Julia said softly. "It comes from love. And God wraps the world in second chances and sticky little leaves and mercy, even though some people don't want them.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Addictive personalities can latch on to anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, peopleβ¦what if you become addicted to me?β
βI am already addicted to you, Beatrice. Only youβre far more dangerous than cocaine.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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When everyone in the whole world believes one thing and you are the only one who believes differently, it's very tempting to assimilate
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Your love makes me beautiful.β
βThen let me love you forever.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Scars might heal and we might forget about them in time, but they're permanent. Not even Jesus lost his scars.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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When you love something, you don't see its flaws.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Look at me. I want to see your eyes when you come.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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My Dear Julianne,
If you wish to know how I feel about you, just ask me.
Yours,
Gabriel
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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You are my water. Making love with you is all I need to quench my thirst. Why would I throw this away for water from the ocean?
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Never be ashamed to accept a gift when there are no strings attached.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Everything is up to you. You can rescue me or banish me with a single word.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Ever had a beer before?" Gabriel grinned.
She shook her head.
"Then I'm glad I'm your first."
"Have you ever held a boy's hand before?" She shook her head, and he laughed softly. "Then I'm glad I'm your first."
"Have you ever been kissed by a boy?"
She blushed deeply and shook her head.
"Then I'm glad I'm your first."
"Have you ever fallen asleep in the arms of a boy before, Beatrice?"
She shook her head.
"Then I'm glad I'm your first."
"I haven't really danced like this before," she said wistfully.
"Then I'm glad I'm your first."
"Has a man ever asked you to marry him before?"
She shook her head, covering her mouth with her hand.
"Then I'm glad I'm your first.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Your the closest thing to an angel I'll ever touch.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Sin isn't something that is attracted to a human being, Professor. It's the other way around.
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If you still believe, you must have hope. You must believe that happiness is possible for you too.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet.β
βHow do you do that?β
βDo what?β
βSay things like that. Thatβs beautiful.β
βIβve spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. Itβs in my DNA.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Redemption (Gabriel's Inferno, #3))
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Whoβs the Angelfucker now?
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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He's 33 for God's sake - being a player isn't cute anymore.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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A lion in charge of wolves, she thought. How convenient.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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You are not a devil, you're an angel. My angel.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I will remember your scent and your touch and how it felt to love you. But most of all, I will remember how it felt to gaze at true beauty, both inside and out. For you are fair, my beloved, in soul and in body, generous of spirit and generous of heart. And I will never see anything this side of heaven more beautiful than you.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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I know you loved me. I just don't understand why you didn't love me enough to stay.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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I breathe you,β he whispered. βYouβre everything. Youβre the air.β
-Gabriel
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She comforted him in his darkness and gave him hope. She seemed to cherish a sincere affection for him, despite his failings. 'She saved me'.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Liar. Liar. Beautiful blue eyes on fire.
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I could spend the rest of my life inside you and die happy. You're my home." - Gabriel's Redemption
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Redemption (Gabriel's Inferno, #3))
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Gabriel kissed Julia as if he knew her, as if she belonged to him. His kiss was passionate and full of emotion, as if every fiber of his being had melted and spread itself on his lips only to be given to her.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Tell me you want me or get out
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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All the money in the world cannot pay for a life.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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The brown-eyes angel was weeping over the demon. The angel wept because she was grieved at the mere thought of someone hurting him
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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My Dearest Julianne,
Thank you for your immeasurable gift.
The only thing I have of value is my heart.
Itβs yours,
Gabriel.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Then you haven't lost your soul. Only a creature with a soul can tell the difference between right and wrong. Yes, you've made mistakes, but you feel guilt. You feel remorse. And if you still have your soul, you haven't lost your chance at redemption.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Julianne Mitchell, I love you too.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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You assume that my previous sexual encounters were completely fulfilling, but youβre wrong. You gave me what Iβve never hadβlove and sex together. Youβre the only one who has ever been my lover in the true sense.
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Please let me love you."
"As if I could even contemplate living without you.
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If I am the darkness then you are the stars." -Gabriel
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Then Iβm glad Iβm your first.β She tightened her grip on his hand.
βYouβre my last, Gabriel. My only.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Redemption (Gabriel's Inferno, #3))
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No relationship is absolutely reciprocal. Sometimes, when couples try to split everything in half, they discover that the relationship is not a partnership but a bean counting exercise. Striving for reciprocity in a relationship can be unhealthy.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Teach me, Beatrice. I'll enroll in your university as your student. Teach me how to care for you.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Hands off the Precious, Gollum.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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She was his as surely as if he'd branded his name on her skin.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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I want to make love to you because I care about you. I want to worship your naked body with my own and learn all of your secrets. I want to please you, not for minutes, but for hours and even days. I want to see you arch your back in ecstasy and look into your eyes when I make you come.
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Miss Mitchell had a lovely voice, it was true, but Miss Mitchell speaking Italian was something celestial. Her ruby mouth opening and closing, the delicate way she almost sang the words, her tongue peeking out to wet her lips from time to time...Professor Emerson had to remind himself to close his mouth after it had dropped open.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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At first he didnβt recognize her. She was breathtakingly beautiful, her movements sure and graceful. Yet there was something about her face and figure that reminded him of the girl heβd fallen in love with long ago. Theyβd gone their separate ways, and he had always mourned her, his angel, his muse, his beloved Beatrice. Without her, his life had been lonely and small.
Now his blessedness appeared.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Why do you do that?β he whispered, after a few minutes.
βDo what?β
βProvoke me.β
βI donβtβ¦Iβ¦Iβm not provoking you. Iβm stating a fact.β
βNevertheless, it is extremely provocative. Every time I try to have a conversation with you like a normal person, you provoke me.
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Sheβd made her choice when he asked for her hand and sheβd offered it without question. Once he touched her, she knew she was his. Afterward, he had always been there in the shadows, like a ghost who would not leave. And now the ghost had decided that he wanted her.
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For no man would have touched her like that before. Eventually, she would be eager and responsive to him. Oh, so responsive. They would kiss, and it would be electric β intense β explosive. Their tongues would tangle and tango together desperately, as if they had never kissed before.
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You know, the act of feeding someone is the ultimate act of care and affection...sharing yourself with someone else through food." He held another mouthful of cake under her nose. "Think about it. We are fed in the Eucharist, by our mothers when we are infants, by our parents as children, by friends at dinner parties, by a lover when we feast on one another's bodies...and on occasion, on another's souls.
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She wanted more. More of him. More of this and them...she wanted to see him come apart above her and know that they had done this together.
She wanted to find their own beautiful rhythm. The music swirled and rose about them, a tempting pace she was eager to match.
She smiled, and he felt her smile travel all the way to his heart, allaying his worries.
Without breaking eye contact, he began to move in and out maddeningly slowly.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Open your eyes.β
Julia looked up into a pair of blue orbs that were startlingly clear and very emotional, but she could not decipher the emotions. He smiled and pressed his lips to her forehead again before rolling onto his back and gazing up at the stars.
βWhat are you thinking?β She shifted herself so that she was curled up at his side, close to but not touching him with her body.
βI was thinking about how I waited for you. I waited and waited, and you never came.β He smiled at her sadly.
βIβm sorry, Gabriel.β
βYouβre here now. Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra.β
βI donβt know what that means.β She sounded shy.
βIt means now your blessedness appears. But really, it should be now my blessedness appears. Now that youβre here.β He pulled her closer, snaking his arm beneath her neck and down to her waist where he splayed his hand, fingers wide, at the small of her back. βFor the rest of my life, Iβll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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It isn't God who's evil-it's us.......Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddle with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? Human beings have a tremendous capacity for cruelty. Why is there any goodness at all? Why are people like Grace and Richard so kind? Because there's a God, and he hasn't allowed the earth to be entirely corrupted. There are sticky like leaves, if you look for them. And when you recognize them, you can feel his presence.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Life is risk. I could get cancer. Or get hit by a car. You could wrap me in bubble wrap and keep me indoors and I could still get sick. I know that I could lose you too. And as much as I donβt want to say it, someday youβre going to die.β
Her voice broke on the last word. βBut I choose to love you now and I choose to build a life with you knowing I could lose you. Iβm asking you to make that same choice. Iβm asking you to take the risk, with me.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Redemption (Gabriel's Inferno, #3))
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I like yourβ¦outfit.β His eyes took in the naked flesh that was visible below the edge of the shirttail.
βI like your outfit too. Youβre looking awfully casual this morning, Professor.β
He leaned forward and gave her a heated look. βMiss Mitchell, youβre lucky I decided to put on any clothes at all.β He chuckled at her fierce blush and disappeared into the kitchen.
Oh, gods of all virgins who are planning to have sex with their sex-god (no blasphemy intended) boyfriends, please donβt let me spontaneously combust when he finally takes me to bed. I really need a Gabriel-induced orgasm, especially after last night. Please. Please. Pretty pleaseβ¦
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1))
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Love hath so long possess'd me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar
That he, who at first irk'd me, is now grown
Unto my heart as its best secrets are.
And thus, when he in such sore wise doth mar
My life that all its strength seems gone from it.
Mine inmost being then feels thoroughly quit
Of anguish, and all evil keeps afar.
Love also gathers to such power in me
That my sighs speak, each one a grievous thing.
Always soliciting
My Gabriel's salutation piteously.
Whenever he beholds me, it is so,
Who is more sweet than any words can show.
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My dad is here," She hissed, hoping to give Gabriel enough of a head start so he could make it to the elevators before Tom took out one of his hunting rifles and shot him.
"I know, I called him."
She turned to Gabriel in wide-eyed disbelief. "Why would you do that? He wants to kill you."
The Professor pulled himself up to his full height. "I want to marry you. That means that I need to make amends with your father. I want to be able to be in the same room without him attempting to shoot me. Or castrate me.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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As soon as the words presented themselves, Gabriel knew that they were perfect for him. Perfect for what he was contemplating doing to her. Perfect for his own self-justification.
Tasting. Taking. Sucking. Sinning. Draining. Abandoning.
She was pure. She was innocent. He wanted her.
Facilis descensus Averni.
But he would not be the one to make her bleed. He could not, would not, make another girl bleed for the rest of his life. All thoughts of seduction and mad, passionate f*cking on desks and chairs, against walls and bookshelves and windows, immediately gave way. He would not take her. He would not mark her and claim what he had no right to claim.
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