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I'm not the marrying kind - St. Vincent snorted. No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.
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I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.
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Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.
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It's drugs, isn't it? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.
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The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.
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There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.
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I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.
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Dane was shaking his head firmly. Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies. I gave him a dark look. What if it were a baby polar bear or a baby Galapagos penguin? I bet you'd want it then. I'd make an exception for endangered species, he allowed. This baby is endangered. It's with my mother.
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There isn’t going to be a ‘next lover,’” Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. “I’m the only man she’s going to have.
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Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.
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Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.
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I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any.
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And you're not the kind of girl I want. Surely he couldn't mean the fact that I was Mexican. From what I knew of Hardy, there wasn't a bit of prejudice in him. He never used racist words, never looked down on someone for things they couldn't help. What kind do you want? I asked with difficulty. Someone I can leave without looking back.
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Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.
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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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I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
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Heath, she whispered, you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .
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No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
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A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife. -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent
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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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