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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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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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Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan
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It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.
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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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But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person... I made a face. Like putting ammo in their hands.
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I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia
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Bad divorce? Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.
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A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.
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That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.
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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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Come on, Ella. Sleep green.' Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp. A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins.
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I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.
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I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way
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Some folks are happier not being saved.
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Dane was shaking his head firmly. Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies. I gave him a dark look. What if it were a baby polar bear or a baby Galapagos penguin? I bet you'd want it then. I'd make an exception for endangered species, he allowed. This baby is endangered. It's with my mother.
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There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.
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The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn’t the end of the story it’s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.
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I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.
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But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.
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