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I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy
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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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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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He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. “Amanda, do you trust me?” “Of course not,” she said. “I don’t know the first thing about you.” Laughter rustled from his chest. “Sensible woman.
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I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way
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I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.
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I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most. ~ Hardy Cates
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You told me you believed marriage was for other people. You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper. Jack smiled. Let's find out, he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him. Jack & Ella
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The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.
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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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Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.” “You should be.” His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought hers again. There was a note in his voice that gently robbed her of breath. “You could do with a bit of spoiling.
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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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Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.
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One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.
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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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I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.
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Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.
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I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.
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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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