“I would give up everything for you, Giulia"
I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world…”

— Deanna Raybourn

Source: Silent in the Sanctuary

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American writer 1968

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