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Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara
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I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
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It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
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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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Do you think I should stay away from him? I asked in a scratchy voice. Todd took a long time to answer. My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.
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Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.
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What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn’t belong anywhere?
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Some folks are happier not being saved.
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A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.
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I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life
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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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God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.
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Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. ... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her. Who was it? His own wife. Oh, dear.
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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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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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He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.
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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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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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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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