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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

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Judith McNaught
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 10
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San Luis Obispo
California
Wrong
Happens
Sometimes
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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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Reformed rakes often make the best husbands
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His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.” Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do.
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The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
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True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
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What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits? I turn you into a hand­some frog.
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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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You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality
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The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.
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Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.
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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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Love and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.
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Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.
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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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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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Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery
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I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.
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How am I doing so far? she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. You're doing very well, Nick's lazy voice mocked. I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.
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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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