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Do you feel the magic?" "Aye," he breathed into her salt-dusted hair. "It's all around me, but most especially, here in my arms." --
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Then you agree that you should keep me." With the smug satisfaction of an argument won, he propped his shoulder against the stall door. Her eyes picked him over as if he were a carved goose on a table. "Aye, I'll have to either keep you...or kill you." "I vote for keeping me." A glint of humor shone in her eyes. "And I shall so long as you behave yourself." "And if I don't behave? If I try to escape?" "I'll hunt you down and kill you." The ..
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she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply.
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Make me a part of this place. Make me a part of Caitlin. Please, God, I love her so.
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You're bleeding," he said. "A thorn prick, no more," she stated. "I didn't know fairy creatures could bleed. I always fancied them spun of mist and moonlight, not flesh and blood." "Let go." "No, my love--" "I'm not a fairy creature, and I am surely not your love." "It's just an expression." "It's a lie. But 'tis no high wonder to me. I'd be expecting falsehoods from a Sassenach." "Poor Caitlin. Does it hurt?" Very slowly, with his eyes fix..
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No, my darling. I'll love the woman you keep hidden inside you. You've led men to battle, but never into your heart. Men respect you, they obey you, but they see you as a warrior. You've never had the chance to blossom.
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her home; it just happened to be where she lived. This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children's story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mistress that screwed the husband that ignored the wife who lived in the house that Jack built....
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This job made it possible for you to stay home all day and draw pictures.
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Having a father who worked at SHAPE was a wonderful opportunity for Sonnet, who would be serving at NATO as an intern.
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Cait," he said softly, his hand covering hers and slowing the motion of the comb. "Put that down and look at me." She stiffened. "Don't be touching me, Englishman." "I don't think I can help myself." She tossed her head, and her downy hair rippled across his chest. He smelled its wild, fresh fragrance. "Scared?" "Never," she swore. "Then turn around." She pivoted sharply, but he kept hold of her and Caitlin found herself pinned between him ..
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Good God, what must I do to win you?
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I want you to look at me and see no other than the man you love. I want you to feel a start of pure joy when you awaken in the morning and find me beside you. I want you to wish you could rush the sunset so that we can be together sooner.
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I want you in every way a man can want a woman, and in ways we've yet to invent. Every single day and night. Now, come here.
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You can either kill me. Or marry me," he said. His suggestion slammed into her with the force of a blow. She reeled back. "No!" He bent and began fishing nails out of the bucket. "No to what?" "To both choices. I will neither kill you in cold blood, nor marry an Englishman." "I'm relieved by the former, but you'll have to explain the latter. Why won't you marry me?" "It isn't obvious?" An intoxicating smile slid across his face. "Not with t..
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Just my luck, she thought. Here I am in the middle of nowhere, and Easy Rider comes to my rescue.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.
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The main boy--the one who was calling the shots--pushed
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think about kissing boys all the time. Me and all my friends. We even practice making out with our pillows.
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Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. --Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846--1916), American essayist
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Hearts would have to break and be mended, truths would be revealed, risks would be taken. Which, when he thought about it, was simply the way life worked--messy, unpredictable, joyous, mysterious, hurtful and redemptive.
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A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." --Henry David Thoreau Walden, "The Ponds"
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And aside from that kiss--awkward and way too...slobbery--things were going all right.
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He was killed while serving in the military, during operation Desert Storm." She had only the vaguest recollection of the conflict. She had been in grade school when it was going on, and the conflict had been as remote as a space shuttle launch. Seeing the man in the picture, with his hauntingly familiar smile, suddenly made it real to her. "I'm terribly sorry."
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Listen, Sarah," he said. "We have to deal with this. Just...take it easy. We'll talk about it some more tonight."
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The empty prairie, crisscrossed by a grid of startlingly straight roads, rolled out like a vast wasteland in front of the hood ornament of the GTO. It was remarkable, Sarah thought, how quickly the suburban sprawl of Chicago gave way to the broad gray-and-white checkerboard of the heartland at its most bleak.
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watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel
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She parked and got out of the car, feeling the wind sweep upward over her, lifting the hem of her jacket, ruffling her hair. She walked to the edge of the cliff and for a long time, stood frozen and stared as though mesmerized by the swirling, white-veined swells that gathered like great fists drawn back for a blow, then smashed themselves against the rocks below, exploding into a spray of diamonds. Some of the spray was so fine that a seri..
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Maybe, she thought, the secret to a happy life was learning to get through the unhappy periods intact.
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the one who was lost. It was as if someone had pulled a dark hood over her face, spun her around until she was dizzy, then thrust her forward, to grope her way blindly through life, praying she would find something to hold on to.
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If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good. The statement was attributed to Theodore Seuss Geisel--better known as Dr. Seuss.
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No more taking the Lord's name in vain or even in earnest.
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but in a town full of nobodys, she's practically somebody.
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the main character saying things like "In my world, chocolate is a vegetable."
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Sometimes desperation can look a lot like bravery,
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Passion for a pursuit was the best feeling.
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Memories are like a series of locked doors, and once you manage to get one open, it leads to another, and then another and so on. The hard part is finding the key to that first lock and getting through it.
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Often, the most important part of a conversation was the waiting.
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Things happen as they are meant to happen. There is no grand plan, just flawed human beings bumbling through life.
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He was the worst kind of liar, the kind who took hearts as hostages and broke them with impunity.
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Falling for him was too easy. Falling in general was easy. It was the landing you had to watch out for.
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Survival was a powerful driving force, stronger than hatred and love combined.
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loved coming here. It always felt so...safe. I was allowed to read any book I wanted. No one interrupted me, or if they did, it was done gently and with respect. I always wished the rest of the world would be run like a library.
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The human spirit could brave anything so long as there was some better future to believe in.
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