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You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
Better
Prickly
Tempered
Suited
Mistress
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She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy
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You told me you believed marriage was for other people. You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper. Jack smiled. Let's find out, he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him. Jack & Ella
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Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.
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The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
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But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.
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Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin
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I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.
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I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.
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It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.
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The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.
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The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.
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Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.
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I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.
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