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I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined
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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.
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It was likely that no one had been surprised, however, as it was clear that Aline and Mckenna belonged together. There was something invisible and yet irrefutable that made them a couple. Perhaps it was the way both of them stole quick glances at each other when one though the other wasn't looking... glances of wonder and hunger.
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I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way
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Very well,” Beatrix said reluctantly. “But I warn you, they may be resistant to the match.” “I’m resistant to the match,” Christopher informed her. “At least we’ll have that in common.
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I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.
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One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.
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A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.
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Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.
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You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in. -Hardy
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I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.
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Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. ... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her. Who was it? His own wife. Oh, dear.
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Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.
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Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.
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Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.
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One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.
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Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.
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It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.
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Heath, she whispered, you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .
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He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.
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Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her? Good God, no, Gideon replied with a snicker. Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.
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