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Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

Karen Marie Moning

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Karen Marie Moning
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 1
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sweetest
Pleasures
Small
Pleasure
Sometimes
Life

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Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.
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I felt the electricity of his body behind me as he reached around me and took the card from my hand. He didn't move away, and I battled the urge to lean back into him, seeking the comfort of his strength. Would he wrap his arms around me? Make me feel safe, if only for a moment, and if only a delusion?
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And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails? I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.
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Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona
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When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm.
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Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
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There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.
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