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I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.
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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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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Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.
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Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.
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Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.
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No one needs to have their way all the time, first of all, but second of all, if you find the right partner, as a couple, you're going to create something together that is going to be better than what you could do or have individually.
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I'm not short, Daisy muttered. Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.
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Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.
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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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Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you? Of course, Adam replied. All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.
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It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.
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Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.
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I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner
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I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis
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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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Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.
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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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