#romantic stuff indeed

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"Anthony's had so much of his evolution stolen from him through grief," Bailey muses. "There's only one person who loves their family as much as he does, in such a complicated way, and that's Kate."

- Jonathan Bailey 🥺

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“the greatest love story” ♥️🐝

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💜

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‘But love was the enemy of the dying man. It was the only thing that could make the rest of his years intolerable—to taste bliss and know that it would all be snatched away. And that was probably why, when Anthony finally reacted to her words, he didn’t yank her to him and kiss her until she was gasping, and he didn’t press his lips to her ear and burn his breath against her skin, making sure she understood that he was on fire for her, and not her sister. Never her sister.’

🌷

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In their own world...

me

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“I didn’t want to love you,” Anthony whispered. “It was the one thing I feared above all. I’d grown rather used to my rather odd little outlook on life. Almost comfortable, actually. But love—” His voice caught; the choking sound seemed unmanly, it made him vulnerable. But he didn’t care, because this was Kate.

And it didn’t matter if she saw his deepest fears, because he knew she’d love him no matter what. It was a sublimely freeing feeling.

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"There's something special about the two of them, Simone and Jonathan, and I think people will really respond to them," he says. "I've always wanted [the experience of watching the show] to be similar to the experience of reading one of those romance novels in terms of things feeling really sexy and a little dangerous and fun and it being a bit of a wild ride at times, so I think that will always be a part of the Bridgerton special sauce."

- Chris Van Dusen, ‘Bridgerton Creator Teases "Magnetic" Season 2 After Emmy Nomination’ (eonline.com)