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The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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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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Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
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The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
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Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.
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Justine, Zoe said, I don't want to curse anyone. Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.
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I love you dammit.she brushed her lips teasingly against his.How much? He made a slight sound, as if the soft kiss had affected him intensely.Without limit.Beyond forever.
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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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Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge
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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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Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts. ~Leo to Merripen
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...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.
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I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.
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He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. “Amanda, do you trust me?” “Of course not,” she said. “I don’t know the first thing about you.” Laughter rustled from his chest. “Sensible woman.
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Dad, I said hesitantly, I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.
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Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.
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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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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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It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching...and that's just my house. Imagine what it would be like here.
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Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.
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I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.
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