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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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Judith McNaught
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 10
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San Luis Obispo
California
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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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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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The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.
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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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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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Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
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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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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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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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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
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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 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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Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland
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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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Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.
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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 do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.
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Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.
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