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Missing you? she giggled incredulously. I could cheerfully murder you. I'd come back to haunt you, he threatened with a grin. And that, she said, is the only reason why I haven't tried.

Judith McNaught

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Judith McNaught
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 10
Author
Novelist
Writer
San Luis Obispo
California
Come
Threatened
Murder
Havens
Tried
Incredulously
Haven
Giggled
Missing
Cheerfully
Back
Haunt
Reason
Grin

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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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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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What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits? I turn you into a hand­some frog.
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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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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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It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.
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If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.
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I want more from life than that and I have more to give.
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True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
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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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Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.
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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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Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.
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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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An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. What is mine, I intend to keep.
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But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.
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You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality
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I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.
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