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Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
Squirrels
Humorous
Serious
May
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Fear you? she said without thinking. Good God, I would never do that. Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. No, you wouldn't, he agreed. You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.
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...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.
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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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You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer.
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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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You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
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Because you need me, he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. Just as I need you. He crushed his mouth to hers. I've needed you for years. Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately
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Do you think I should stay away from him? I asked in a scratchy voice. Todd took a long time to answer. My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.
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Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.
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My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.
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Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.
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I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.
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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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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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- No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.
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A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.
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I can't get it out, she said. Just pull at it. It hurts. It's throbbing. Pull harder. I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby? No. Not anything? Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.
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If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.
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And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.
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