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Ian Fleming from the Admiralty (known as the Phlegm among the many BP females he has backed into a corner) is a classic case in point: damp hands, gin fumes, slinks about like something out of a cheap spy novel.
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Kate Quinn (The Rose Code)
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Kate exudes a gentle acceptance, like you could tell her your worst secret and she'd shrug it off. My own mother was the same, and I miss her more than ever. She'd assure me almost nothing's unfixable if it's worth fixing.
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Sarah Lyons Fleming (Instauration (The City, #3))
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Kate hovers a hand above my cookie. "You really don't want it? Eric said you wouldn't be able to resist cookies."
"I'm stronger than he thinks," I say aloud, and then to myself, And infinitely more awkward than he realizes.
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Sarah Lyons Fleming (Instauration (The City, #3))
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Funny how all these years, I swore I was a born-again pacifist," Kate says. "But you never know what you'll do in a situation until you're in it.
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Sarah Lyons Fleming (Instauration (The City, #3))
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Lucifer, taking his last look of heaven, might have worn just such a lookβso full of relentless hate, burning revenge, and undying defiance.
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May Agnes Fleming (May Agnes Flemingβs Collected Works: The Gypsy Queen's Vow, Kate Danton, Edith Percival, and More! (15 Works))