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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.
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Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.
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I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
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If I'm to change my life for you, I've got to have some hope. I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone.
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Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
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She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.
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You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you. He surveyed her with mocking green eyes. You think you're the first high-kick wench I've ever had? I used to have blue-blooded bitches like you pay me to do this. You've gotten it for free.
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It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.
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You won't kiss me for diamonds, he said, his voice slightly raspy, but you will for chocolates? Poppy nodded.
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I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.
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My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me. -Lillian Bowman
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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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I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.
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I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.
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Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.
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Because you need me, he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. Just as I need you. He crushed his mouth to hers. I've needed you for years. Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately
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