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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.
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If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?
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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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Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.
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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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Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.
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Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts. ~Leo to Merripen
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The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.
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...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.
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Of all the things he wants, Liberty said, money's the easiest to get.
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No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.
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Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.
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Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books? And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.
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Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.
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I want you, he muttered. Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am Unbelievable, I said in disgust. What's unbelievable? Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!
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We’ll continue our discussion later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room.” “That is not a wise idea, in my opinion,” the earl said. “I’m glad I didn’t ask for it, then,” Simon returned pleasantly
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I can't get it out, she said. Just pull at it. It hurts. It's throbbing. Pull harder. I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby? No. Not anything? Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.
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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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It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching...and that's just my house. Imagine what it would be like here.
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