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Well,the hell with you." She natched up her purse. "The hell with both of you." "We love you, Margo." That stopped her.She whirled back to glare at Kate. "That's a lousy thing to say.Bitch." When Kate grinned,she tried to grin back.Instead she dropped her purse back behind the counter and burst into tears. "Oh,shit." Shocked,Kate leaped forward to gather her close. "Oh,hell.Oh, shit.Lock the door,Laura.I'm sorry, Margo.I'm sorry.Bad plan.I ..
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Nora Roberts |
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406f75c
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There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.
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Nora Roberts |
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fec042f
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You didn't hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won't hurt.
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Nora Roberts |
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cbe16f4
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It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.
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Nora Roberts |
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afe9a70
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Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, "Coming out!" She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. "Hello, gorgeous." She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. "Hey, handsome."
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tears
handsome
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Nora Roberts |
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2c55617
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She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way.
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kissing
sex
passion
love
mouth
sensuality
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Nora Roberts |
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cdaab41
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What matters is you're the blue butterfly." "I'm... what?" "Come on, Professor, Dr. Maguire. You know all about metaphors and analogies and symbolism. You flew into my life, just landed in it unexpectedly. Maybe miraculously. And the picture formed. It just took me a while to see it."
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Nora Roberts |
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0a8c290
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The kid's driving me bat-shit," Cam complained as he stalked into the kitchen. "You can't say boo to him without him squaring up for a fight." "Mm-hmm." "Argumentative, smart-mouthed, troublemaker." "Must be like looking in a mirror." "Like hell." "Don't know what I was thinking of. You're such a peaceable soul."
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ethan-quinn
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Nora Roberts |
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db42e50
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He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.
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sea-swept
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Nora Roberts |
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d157db2
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Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?" Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you i..
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women
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Nora Roberts |
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dbd75d5
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Can we go back to the part where you're in love with me?" "No, because I'm not anymore. I've come to my senses." "That's a damn shame, that is. You'll have to wait here a minute. There's something I need from inside." "I'll not stand out here. I'm going home." "I'll only come after you, Brenna," he called over his shoulder as he walked to the door."
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shawn-gallagher
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Nora Roberts |
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5f089bb
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Love shouldn't be hard." "There I think you're wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it's not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost."
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Nora Roberts |
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c0f5df3
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Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving."
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Nora Roberts |
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dbecf16
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If you lived with her, you must have been in love with her.' 'No. I wanted to be in love with her. It's not the same thing at all.
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Nora Roberts |
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2bcb292
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Bright light. You've always found your way.
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endurance-and-attitude
never-give-up
self-motivation
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Nora Roberts |
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dc3f627
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I'll walk you back,"he said with such apparently boundless amiability that Diana wanted to deck him. "That isn't necessary," she began as her hand was clasped by his. "I suppose I could walk ten paces behind or ten paces in front." As she let out a frustrated breath, Caine grinned down at her. "You're not angry because we exchanged a friendly kiss? After all, we're family." "There was nothing friendly or familial about it," Diana muttered...
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Nora Roberts |
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2cc9343
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Come on,let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.
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Nora Roberts |
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3925a81
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Everyone needs cake, Del.
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Nora Roberts |
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2e808aa
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Some beautiful things are meant to be sad so we can appreciate the beautiful things that aren't.
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Nora Roberts |
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cd05162
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When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it"."
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revenge
justice
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Nora Roberts |
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daab249
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I think you're under no obligation whatsoever to forgive anything, to forget anything. You're not required to push away the years of abuse because the abuser now chooses to be sober and in his sobriety regrets his actions. And white may be small and unforgiving of me, I think people who do so at the snap of a dam finger are either liars or are in need of serious therapy. I assume you heard him out, so in my personal opinion, any debt you mi..
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opinionated
outspoken
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Nora Roberts |
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5471535
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It didn't take him long, and he pulled up nearly nose-to-nose with Ash as they came in from opposite directions. "You shaved off your ..." It couldn't rightfully be called a beard, Brooks considered. "Face hair." "Yeah, it got too hot." "Uh-huh." --
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Nora Roberts |
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6799da7
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I've always been his favorite." "Is that so?" Lazily Shelby folded her arms behind her head. She could picture him as a boy,seeing beyond what other boys saw and storing it. "Why?" "If I weren't modest,I'd confess that I was always a well-mannered, even-tempered child who never gave my parents a moment's trouble." "Liar," she said easily. "How'd you get the broken nose?" The grin became rueful. "Rena punched me." "Your sister broke your nos..
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Nora Roberts |
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0a448b1
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If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.
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Nora Roberts |
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383411f
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Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way--the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.
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Nora Roberts |
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9d31359
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Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.
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Nora Roberts |
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e160781
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To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.
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Nora Roberts |
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78e8c6d
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You're the whole focus of my world," he murmured. "After you left, I went crazy.I flew down to New Orleans, and-" "You did?" Stunned,she drew back to look at him. "You went after me?" "With various purposes in mind," he muttered. "First,I was going to strangle you,then I was going to crawl, then I was going to just drag you back and lock you upstairs." Smiling,she rested her head on his chest. "And now?" "Now." He kissed her hair. "We compr..
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Nora Roberts |
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e61defa
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Love,' she murmured as she washed. 'Nobody inside it knows the hell how to handle it.
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Nora Roberts |
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ec318e2
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Kissing Red must've killed off some of your brain cells," Ryder decided. "You can tell a woman what to do---if you play it right---and maybe, half the time she'd do it, or something close to it. That's a live woman. A dead one? I figure that's closer to zero."
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humorous
women
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Nora Roberts |
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86e4473
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Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.
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Nora Roberts |
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f08ec41
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He braced his elbows on the desk,his brow on his fists. "She came shrieking across the court.I'd just hit a line drive,barely missed beaning her. Cameras rolling, and there I am trying to look my sixth-generational-hotelier best, the athletic yet intelligent, the world-traveled yet dedicated, the dashing yet concerned heir to the Templeton name." "You'd be good at that," Margo murmured, hoping to placate him. He didn't even look at her. "Su..
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Nora Roberts |
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27ab37b
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'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'
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Nora Roberts |
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750cb41
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Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step.
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Nora Roberts |
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1e0ab63
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Mirizmite ostavat s nas nai-d'lgo, zabraven aromat ni vr'shcha otdavna pogrebani spomeni i chuvstva.
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Nora Roberts |
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21c3190
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Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point."
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raymond-quinn
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Nora Roberts |
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b6e478a
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Seduce my mind and you can have my body, Find my soul and I'm yours forever. --ANONYMOUS
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Nora Roberts |
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39ce29c
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Harry, I promised you something. I said I'd clear it with you before I asked your mom to marry me. I need you to tell me it's okay if I do.
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Nora Roberts |
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44808ab
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What the hell are you doing here?" "A typical Grant Campbell welcome."
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Nora Roberts |
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f615093
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There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.
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Nora Roberts |
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b5762d9
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She'd already accepted that she loved him, hadn't she? And it had been easy, a simple process of steps and study. Her mind was amde up, her goals set. Damn it, she'd been pleased by the whole business. So what was this shaky, dizzy, sensation, this clutch of panic that made her want to turn her mount sharply around and ride as far away as possible? She'd been wrong, Keeyley realized as she pressed an unsteady hand to her jumpy heart.She'd..
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Nora Roberts |
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8582759
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She stared at him. "You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically?" "Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life."
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Nora Roberts |
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3c60f40
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His hands came to her wrists, squeezed reflexively, before he got quickly to his feet. "You're mixing things up." Panic arrowed straight into his heart. "I told you sex complicates things." "Yes,you did.And of course since you're the only man I've been with, how could I knew the difference between sex and love? Then again, that doesn't take into account that I'm a smart and self-aware woman, and I know the reason you're the only man I've be..
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Nora Roberts |
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5a0be44
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Is your dog in a coma?" Quinn asked when the dog didn't move a muscle. "No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest."
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humor
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Nora Roberts |