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You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality

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Judith McNaught
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 10
Author
Novelist
Writer
San Luis Obispo
California
Heart
Much
Kinder
Discover
Matters
Soon
Memories
Reality
Matter

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Matt: I know you can cook. Meredith: What makes you so sure? Matt: Because less than an hour ago, you set me on fire.
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Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?
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She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.
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Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.
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I want more from life than that and I have more to give.
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Jason, stop this,” she pleaded. “You don’t want to kiss me. You don’t even like me more than a little when you aren’t foxed” A harsh laugh escaped him. “I like you too damned much!” he whispered bitterly, then pulled her head down and captured her lips in a demaning, scalding kiss that took everything and give nothing in return.
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Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are.
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God help me if I ever injure my back, Clayton quipped. God help you if you ever turn it, Whitney snapped, for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.
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An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. What is mine, I intend to keep.
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Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.
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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
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How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it
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Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.
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I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.
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I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.
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I'd like to shower and change clothes, she said. Would you mind waiting for me a half hour? The question seemed to amuse him. Not at all, he said with exaggerated formality. Please take all the time you need. Michael watched her walk away. Did he mind waiting a half hour for her? Not at all. He'd been waiting years for her.
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Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness. May I ask for a specific example? Fat priests, Royce replied, with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.
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Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.
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Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland
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