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My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me. -Lillian Bowman

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding. To save your reputation? Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. Someone has to make a respectable man of me.
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I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.
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Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
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I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.
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Dad, I said hesitantly, I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.
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A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
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You know, I told him on our wedding night, I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you. And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.
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Did you fall in love with her? I care about her. A lot. You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her. Well, love is a choice, too. Holly shook her head. I think it's something that happens to you. Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. Maybe it's both, he said, and tucked her in.
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His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.
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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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You won't kiss me for diamonds, he said, his voice slightly raspy, but you will for chocolates? Poppy nodded.
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The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.
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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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You sweet…beautiful…lunatic,” he heard himself mutter.
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I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
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She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.
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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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In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.
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I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
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