Carolina QuotesShe didn't hide what she was thinking, she didn't try to impress him, nor was she swayed by anything he'd accomplished in the past. Instead she seemed to evaluate him as he was today, right now, without holding either the past or the future against him.
Nicholas Sparks Carolinian
Source
Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 9, p. 159
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- True Believer (2005)
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- 2005
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- p. 159
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