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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.

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.
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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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Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day. -Liberty
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The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.
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Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.
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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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Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.
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You know, I told him on our wedding night, I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you. And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.
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The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.
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I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.
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My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words
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The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
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When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.
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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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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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Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . Another big swallow. Or the wrong thing for the right reason.
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The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.
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Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.” “Lying in bed with me?
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You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.
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I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
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