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The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
Take
Enough
Love
Risk
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Whether

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Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.” “Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.
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But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person... I made a face. Like putting ammo in their hands.
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To put to rest any doubts you might have… I’m jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I’m jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I’m jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight
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Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.
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You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
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Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.
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I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.
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There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.
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Can't you just tell me now? No, I need someone to eat with. A slight smile rose to my lips. Am I supposed to believe that I'm your only option? No. But you're my favorite option.
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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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I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.
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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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I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable. How sweet, Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.
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She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.
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I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.
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Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
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Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . Another big swallow. Or the wrong thing for the right reason.
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
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Fear you? she said without thinking. Good God, I would never do that. Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. No, you wouldn't, he agreed. You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.
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I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.
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