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I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. “I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined,” he said sourly.
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And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.
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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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From what I was able to hear, Dane said, Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay. Social Services, I said. She hasn't thought of eBay yet.
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What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance? His posture, Hannah muttered. What about it? He slouches. He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.
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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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Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.
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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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He'll survive, he answered her. Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.
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It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.
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Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.
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I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline
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If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.
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But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.
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But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.
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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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A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
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I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.
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It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.
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