Dizem que uma pessoa inteligente aprende com os seus erros (...), mas uma pessoa verdadeiramente inteligente aprende com os erros dos outros.
Julia QuinnThis Author has come to the conclusion that there are rakes, and there are Rakes.
Anthony Bridgerton is a Rake.
A rake (lower-case) is youthful and immature. He flaunts his exploits, behaves with utmost idiocy, and thinks himself dangerous to women.
A Rake (upper-case) knows he is dangerous to women.
He doesn’t flaunt his exploits because he doesn’t need to. He knows he will be whispered about by men and women alike, and in fact, he’d rather they didn’t whisper about him at all. He knows who he is and what he has done; further recountings are, to him, redundant.
He doesn’t behave like an idiot for the simple reason that he isn’t an idiot
if one read [Lady Whistledown's Society Papers] often enough, one could almost feel a part of London society without actually attending any balls.
Julia QuinnStichwörter: gossip-columns
she was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky.
Julia QuinnStichwörter: damsel-in-distress
But he had saved her. That was irrefutable. Maybe it didn't really matter why he'd come to Phillip's party, only that he had, and he had saved her.
Julia QuinnStichwörter: damsel-in-distress
Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her with reckless abandon. The sun barely squeaked through the canopy of leaves above her, and down at ground level, it felt more like dusk than midday.
Julia QuinnStichwörter: nature-s-beauty
he was struck again by that odd sense of somehow being more alive than he'd been just seconds earlier.
Julia QuinnStichwörter: sixth-sense
I like my life dull.'
'If you like your life dull, then that can only mean that you do not understand the nature of excitement.
If he heard her, he gave no indication, just went on about "men who take advantage" and "helpless women" and "fates worse than death." Sophie wasn't positive, but she thought she even heard the phrase "roast beef and pudding".
Julia QuinnStichwörter: tirades
My sisters call him Slinky Simon.'
Alec chuckled.
'It's only funny if he's not your cousin.'
'It's funny because it's true.
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