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Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly
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Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story"."
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pg-114
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Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.
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friends
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I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?
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Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Involved, period."
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I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything."
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Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I'm serious." "What about the one time when you're not?" "I'm asleep."
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I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.
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For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.
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Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.
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paranormal-suspense
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Now that, would be a really dumb ass thing to do.
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Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.
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Find one lousy body in your aunt's fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking.
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The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.
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He leaned back against the Jeep and smiled. "More orders for your CEO, Madam President?" Her eyes were huge and solemn with concern. "I want you to be very careful tonight." "I will," he promised. "Joel, I love you. You know that, don't you?" For an instant he was stunned at the admission. Then elation soared in him. For the moment, at least, it blotted out all the other things he had been feeling since he'd walked into his apartment and se..
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Later we can go to dinner." "I suppose that might work," she said. She sounded so damn casual, he thought. As if the decision she had just made weren't staggering in its implications. As if it weren't going to alter destinies and change the fate of nations."
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If you don't give yourself room to fail, Zack, you'll live your life inside an iron cage that will gradually get smaller and smaller until you can't even breathe.
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A secret is only a secret as long as only one person knows it
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It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it
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There is no Great American Novel," she said absently. "This nation is too big and too diverse to produce only one great book. We've got lots of them and there will be more written in the future. Art doesn't stand still."
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What about all the passion and pizzazz?" Letty smiled up at him, her hands moving on his shoulders. "I'm really enjoying that part, Joel." Joel laughed softly in the shadows. "Passion and pizzazz are our middle names, Letty my love. We've got enough to last us for the rest of our lives."
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Letty, it's just a business. Don't get emotional about it." She grinned. "You're a fine one to talk. You're the most emotional man I know." "The hell I am," he muttered. "I have a lot more self-control than you do, Madam President." "Let's not argue about that," Letty said"
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How long were you standing up there spying on me?" she asked. "You sure know how to make a man feel welcome."
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A little tired," Diana admitted. "But mostly I'm frustrated. I've got a million questions, and every time I tried to get Colby to answer them last night he kept changing the subject." Brandon grinned. "He was more interested in making sure you and the baby were all right than in answering your questions. Besides, after we got you two down from that cave, you kept drifting off to sleep every few minutes."
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Piece of cake." Brandon's grin had a certain very familiar male cockiness about it. "Dad says this time around I was his sucker punch." His grin faded slightly and his expression grew more serious as he continued. "But when we realized you were in danger, Dad went wild. I doubt if any car, even that old 'vette Dad used to drive, ever made the kind of time on River Road your Buick made last night. Dad really is a hell of a driver, isn't he?"
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There can be no true definition of normal because life is ever-changing.
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Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap
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Embrace the unknown. It is the only certainty.
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Correct me if I'm wrong," he said, "but I was under the impression that you weren't looking for anything more than a short-term arrangement either, Miss Free Spirit." She flushed. "I wasn't the one who ran for the door that night. I was doing just fine with the summer-fling thing." "I did not run for the door. I left in a hurry, but I did not run." "Details." "Important details. And I'd like to remind you that I showed at your gallery the n..
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We all make the best choices we can with the information we have available at the time we have to make them. None of us ever has enough information to be absolutely sure we're making the right choice.
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A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.
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I love you, Desdemona." "I know," she whispered. "You don't have to say the words." He smiled slowly. "Trust me, you're going to hear them every day for the rest of our lives."
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Brandon's teeth flashed in a brief, knowing grin. "Hard to believe you're an old married man with one grown son and another baby on the way, huh?" "You're wrong," Colby said. "I don't have any trouble believing it at all. The reminders are all around me. And I'll tell you something, kid. I wouldn't go back. Not for anything." "Things are a lot better now?" "Things are infinitely better now." Colby's mouth curved faintly. "The best they've e..
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Diana seemed content with her role of wife, too. Colby congratulated himself. He'd chosen well the second time around, even if he had chosen in haste again. He'd learned a lot about Diana in the past few months. She was a mature adult just as he was, and when she made a commitment, she kept it
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handiwork. One thing his background in construction had given him was a certain skill in taking care of the little things that a husband and father was always being called upon to do. Diana admired his ability in the home improvement department, and Colby knew he occasionally gave in to the urge to show off. She would
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He could afford to do things right this time around, and he didn't intend to settle for anything less. Colby knew he wasn't doing it for the baby, who wouldn't know the difference between a shiny new crib and a cardboard box. He was doing it for Diana. He wanted her to take pleasure in everything that had to do with the baby. She was a woman who appreciated nice things, and he was determined that she would be surrounded by them while she ca..
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I agree with you one hundred percent." Diana batted her lashes. "I think you've made a very wise decision, Colby." He ran his palm up her bare arm. "And I think you're picking up the finer nuances of being a wife faster than I'd ever imagined you would. How the hell did I wind up agreeing to spend Christmas with Margaret Fulbrook?" "How the hell did I wind up pregnant and unemployed and financially dependent on a man for the first time in m..
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Colby was massaging her lower back with an automatic motion. He always knew when she was hurting. She leaned into his warm palm, savoring the small comfort. "You okay, honey?" Colby asked with concern. "I'm fine. Just the usual aches and pains. I'll be so glad when this baby gets here." Colby grinned. "This from the woman who's been worrying about surviving labor pains for nearly nine months?"
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next shout of anguish filled the grotto. "It's okay, honey. I'm here." "Dad? Where are you? Where's Diana? Is she all right? Oh, Christ. Dad, she's having the baby." "Trust Diana to try to do this on her own." But Colby's voice was infinitely gentle and soothing as he kneeled beside her. "Everything's going to be all right now, little amazon. I knew you would take good care of our baby until I got here. I knew I could count on you." Diana l..
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a sad pulse beat in the darkness. The phone had rung just as the sky began
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She's here, Diana. Our little Tabby is here. Safe and sound." Diana lifted her lashes and looked up at Colby. He was on his knees between her legs, holding his daughter in Brandon's denim jacket. In the glare of the flashlight Brandon held, she could see the brilliant expression of triumph and happiness in her husband's eyes. "I love you, Diana."
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Joel looked at her. "I think I started to let go of the past the day I met you." Letty smiled tremulously. "Fair enough. I did the same with a lot of my own past when I met you." "In any event," Joel continued softly, "I don't have much choice but to put it all behind me, do I? I'm going to be too busy with my future to worry about my past. Speaking of which, you looked very interesting with a baby in your arms, Madam President." "Interesti..
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Well," Joel said, "I guess maybe we'd better get started right away." He rolled over on top of her, covering her body with his own and crushing her deep into the thick mattress. "Hold it," Letty said, already breathless. "Where I come from, we don't start planning babies until we've planned the wedding." "Don't worry about it, one way or another there's going to be a wedding before next spring." Joel kissed her throat. "You're sure?" "I'm s..
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I don't know, Joel," Letty said with a tiny considering frown. "I was just starting to get used to the idea of an affair." "I told you, you're not really cut out for an affair, Letty." "I thought I was handling it very well," she said. "You're not the type."
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