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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.

Judith McNaught

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Judith McNaught
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 10
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San Luis Obispo
California
Invisible
Convinced
Asked
Mocked
Half
Lightness
Voice
Forcing
Wells
Nick
Well
Cheerful
Lazy

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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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Love and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.
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After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.
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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
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Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
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What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits? I turn you into a hand­some frog.
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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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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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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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I ought to break your neck! Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her injured knee. Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam, he said sternly. In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.
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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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Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.
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I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.
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True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
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Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.
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