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

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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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Never
Men
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Belong

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Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
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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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There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.
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I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
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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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A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one's own.
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I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis
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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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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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One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.
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I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.
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The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.
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Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
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I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.
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The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.
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The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. “I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined,” he said sourly.
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My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words
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Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.
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She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy
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From what I was able to hear, Dane said, Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay. Social Services, I said. She hasn't thought of eBay yet.
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