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Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her? Good God, no, Gideon replied with a snicker. Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right? Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.
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If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.
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No more Dane,” he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. “I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him.” “It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.
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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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Evie picked up the smallest of the rings and tried it on the fourth finger of her left hand. It fit perfectly. Raising it closer to her face, she examined the design. It was the simplest of all the rings, a polished gold band engraved with the words Tha Gad Agam Ort. “What does this mean?” she asked MacPhee. “It says, ‘My love is upon ye.
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I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.
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Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.
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Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
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Did you fall in love with her? I care about her. A lot. You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her. Well, love is a choice, too. Holly shook her head. I think it's something that happens to you. Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. Maybe it's both, he said, and tucked her in.
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She shook her head as she confessed, I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope. Never be afraid to hope, Rohan said gently. It's the only way to begin. -Rohan to Win
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What does your gut tell you? My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other
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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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I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.
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Of all the things he wants, Liberty said, money's the easiest to get.
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It's drugs, isn't it? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.
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I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.
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Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.
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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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I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.
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