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If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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Rather than argue, Amanda smiled at him. “And then what will you do while your son or daughter is in charge of your store and your companies?” “I’ll spend my days and nights pleasing you,” he said. “It’s a challenging occupation, after all.” He laughed and dodged as she went to swat his attractive backside.
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The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.
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They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us!
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You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.
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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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Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.
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Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.
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Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan
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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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Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.
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If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.
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Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.
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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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Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.
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Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.
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But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.
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Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can’t seem to make yourself want him. But that’s not nearly as bad as when you meet the wrong guy, and you can’t make yourself not want him.
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I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding. To save your reputation? Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. Someone has to make a respectable man of me.
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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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