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c433017
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Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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6b8bd78
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A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.
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illness
love
kev
merripen
soulmates
win
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Lisa Kleypas |
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4817ae5
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If you won't marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian... because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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4b9d4c3
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After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. "Did anyone else notice--" "Yes," Catherine said. "What do you make of it?" "I haven't decided yet." Leo frowned and took a sip of port. "He's not someone I would pair Bea with." "Whom would you pair her with?" "Hanged if I know," Leo said. "Someone with similar interests. The local veterinarian, perhaps?" "He's eighty-three years old and deaf," Catherine said. "They would never argue,"..
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marriage
humor
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Lisa Kleypas |
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cebc1f1
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You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean waves and French words and a baby's laugh. You're a snow angel, creme brulee, a kaleidoscope filled with glitter. I love you and you'll never catch up, because I've gotten a head start and my heart is racing at light speed."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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7412390
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McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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2d009ab
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If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness... I may. If you ask nicely.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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6a82869
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Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked."
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wicked
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Lisa Kleypas |
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75ad563
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Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
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naughtiness
persuasion
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Lisa Kleypas |
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eca198b
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So you actually need spectacles," Leo finally said. "Of course I do," Marks said crossly. "Why would I wear spectacles if I didn't need them?" "I thought they might be part of your disguise." "My disguise?" "Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone's identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?"
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romance
humor
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Lisa Kleypas |
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b51688e
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What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?" He smiled ruefully. "A fast one."
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marriage
husband
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Lisa Kleypas |
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87f26db
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Over the years I've collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you've ever said to me. All those visits to your family's home, those dinners and holidays--I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you." The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. "You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot...I love watching you deal with your family. You've always been everything I thought a woma..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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bf21402
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She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win" --
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romance
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Lisa Kleypas |
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3de8da9
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Where are we going?" Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. "To the house. If they're not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I'll have to debauch you in front of someone else."
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romance
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Lisa Kleypas |
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fb2f518
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I have nothing to offer you," he finally said in a guttural voice. "Nothing." Win's lips had turned dry. She moistened them, and tried to speak through a thrill of anxious trembling. "You have yourself," she whispered. "You don't know me. You think you do, but you don't. The things I've done, the things I'm capable of--you and your family, all you know of life comes from books. If you understood anything--" "Make me understand. Tell me what..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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ec273b5
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A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.
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reality
life
love
inspirational
kleypas
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Lisa Kleypas |
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e6ca73b
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I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?
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Lisa Kleypas |
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2b0e1b1
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They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.
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lisa-kleypas
historical-romance
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Lisa Kleypas |
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ef2e114
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A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
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complaining
conversation
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Lisa Kleypas |
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d319a4d
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Captain Phelan and I dislike each other," Beatrix told her. "In fact, we're sworn enemies." Christopher glanced at her quickly. "When did we become sworn enemies?" Ignoring him, Beatrix said to her sister, "Regardless, he's staying for tea." "Wonderful," Amelia said equably. "Why are you enemies, dear?" "I met him yesterday while I was out walking," Beatrix explained. "And he called Medusa a 'garden pest,' and faulted me for bringing her to..
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names
humor
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Lisa Kleypas |
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c53af7d
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Of all the Hathaway sisters," Cam said equably, "Beatrix is the one most suited to choose her own husband. I trust her judgment." Beatrix gave him a brilliant smile. "Thank you, Cam." "What are you thinking?" Leo demanded of his brother-in-law. "You can't trust Beatrix's judgment." "Why not?" "She's too young," Leo said. "I'm twenty-three," Beatrix protested. "In dog years I'd be dead."
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marriage
humor
hathaways
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Lisa Kleypas |
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25f05b2
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I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention."
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marriage
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Lisa Kleypas |
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25330b0
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I am illegitimate," she said distinctly, as if he were a foreigner trying to learn English. "You are a viscount. You can't marry a bastard." "What about the Duke of Clarence? He had ten bastard children by that actress...what was her name..." "Mrs. Jordan." "Yes, that one, Their children were all illegitimate, but some of them married peers." "You're not the Duke of Clarence." "That's right. I'm not a blueblood any more than you are. I inhe..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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5319071
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What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you." "Why? Was kissing me that bad?" A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good."
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kiss
wine-cellar
haven
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Lisa Kleypas |
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ad5e732
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I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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f36eb30
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You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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80bfff6
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Leo smiled and stroked her hair. 'We'll both be fine, Marks. We've just begun our journey...and there's so much we have yet to do.' He spoke more softly as he heard her breathing turn even and steady. 'Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.' 'Dodger?' she mumbled against his chest, and he grinned. 'No, your confounded fe..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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2117d3b
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With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man." "That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one."
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marriage
wife
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Lisa Kleypas |
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a267762
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Cat doesn't have to work. She's a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to allow her the freedom to do anything she wished. She went to boarding school for four years, and stayed to teach for another two. Eventually she came to me and said she'd accepted a position as a governess for the Hathaway family. I believe you were in France with Win at the time. Cat went for the interview, Cam and Amelia liked her, Beatrix and P..
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romance
job
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Lisa Kleypas |
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119a9a0
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The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. "I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined," he said sourly."
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marcus
simon
sarcasm
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Lisa Kleypas |
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452c2e2
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Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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7aec71a
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Coming forward with a placating smile, Win handed him a piece of paper. "Of course we would never want to force you into a loveless marriage, dear. But we have put together a list of prospective brides, all of them lovely girls. Won't you take a glance and see if any of them appeals to you?" Deciding to humor her, Leo looked down at the list. "Marietta Newbury?" "Yes," Amelia said. "What's wrong with her?" "I don't like her teeth." "What ab..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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4e0e70e
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Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.
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romance
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Lisa Kleypas |
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f7d8749
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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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Lisa Kleypas |
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0e94489
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So are you bisexual?" I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. "I guess I'm bipossible," he had said."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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bcde6f4
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I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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04a6b4b
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What if you could meet your soul mate?" the ghost asked. "You 'd want to avoid that?" "Hell, yes. The idea that there's one soul out there, waiting to merge with mine like some data-sharing program, depresses the hell out of me." "It's not like that. It's not about losing yourself." "Then what is it?" Alex was only half listening, still occupied with the viselike tightness of his chest. "It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward..
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soul-mates
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Lisa Kleypas |
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850ca3f
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He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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c7e9594
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I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
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weakness
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Lisa Kleypas |
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818eeda
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If the feeling is there, you might as well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying them, doesn't change a damn thing
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Lisa Kleypas |
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e6ac61a
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A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.
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oral-sex
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Lisa Kleypas |
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0562b8d
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I'm fairly certain, Captain," she said, "that the more you discover about me, the more you will dislike me. Therefore, let's cut to the chase and acknowledge that we don't like each other. Then we won't have to bother with the in-between part." She was so bloody frank and practical about the whole thing that Christopher couldn't help but be amused. "I'm afraid I can't oblige you." "Why not?" "Because when you said that just now, I found mys..
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romance
humor
hedgehog
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Lisa Kleypas |
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acd9018
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Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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e7b87e6
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I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.
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Lisa Kleypas |