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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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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.
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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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I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.
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Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.
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Some questions change everything.
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We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted. “After that, he said he needed to think.” “About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?” “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.
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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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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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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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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 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 would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.
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Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.
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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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The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.
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My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me. -Lillian Bowman
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When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.
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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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Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.
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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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