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Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

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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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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Where's your instruction manual? I asked him. What's the baby customer-service number?
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I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates
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Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?” “They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.
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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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There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn’t done... the paths you hadn’t taken, the things you hadn’t experienced.
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It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.
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Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.
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I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.
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The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.
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If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.
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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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I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.
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It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.
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I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.
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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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I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.
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I love you enough for the both of us. And there must be something about me worth loving. If you would just try.
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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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The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.
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