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a722a4b
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I feel the curve of his smile against my skin. But as he lifts his head and looks into my eyes, his grin fades. "Haven . . . I don't know if I'm going to be a good father. What if I don't do it right?" I am touched by Hardy's concern, his constant desire to be the man he thinks I deserve. Even when we disagree, I have no doubt that I am cherished. And respected. And I know that neither of us takes the other one for granted. I have come to r..
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love
haven
travis
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Lisa Kleypas |
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27022cb
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If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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32b41fd
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Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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c4f01f8
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Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel's chest like an ache. He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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37991e7
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She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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e81fbe1
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Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds
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Lisa Kleypas |
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597c213
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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.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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93236d8
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It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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ae286fe
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It's all right," the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. "My grandmother always told me 'Never try to turn back on a new road--you don't know what adventures await you."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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af8447e
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I'm sorry." Her voice cracked. "McKenna-" "Not sorry enough." He pressed his wet face to hers, his mouth rubbing over her cheeks and chin in feverish, rough half kisses, as if he wanted to devour her. "Not nearly enough. You say you've had to live without your heart...how would you like to lose your soul as well? I've cursed every day I've had to live without you, and every night that I spent with another woman, wishing that it was you in m..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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621ca5d
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Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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7bb2021
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I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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bfd997c
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I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I realized the problem: no one I knew would have come up with that day for me. , I thought, .
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Lisa Kleypas |
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2e0a601
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Heart of my heart, you need no man to give you away. Just come to me of your own free will. Love me for who I am... just as I love you for who you are... and our bond will last until the stars lose their shining.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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06e49cd
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I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined
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romance
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Lisa Kleypas |
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1010f0f
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It's me, love," he said softly. "Everything's all right." Daisy managed to whisper through dry lips. "If you're a ghost...I hope you haunt me forever." Matthew sat on the floor and reached for her cold hands. "Would a ghost use the door?" he asked gently, bringing her fingers to his scratched, battered face."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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5e8661a
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Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream." -Westcliff"
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Lisa Kleypas |
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fd652d9
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Be happy, honey. No one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm keeping one little piece of your heart for myself. And if you ever want it back.. .you know where to find it.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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0eb5588
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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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Lisa Kleypas |
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c3616c4
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Sebastian, who had begun to laugh, seemed struck by that last comment. "Ahhh," he said softly. "That explains it." He was silent for a moment, lost in some distant, pleasurable memory. "Dangerous creatures, wallflowers. Approach them with the utmost caution. They sit quietly in corners, appearing abandoned and forlorn, when in truth they're sirens who lure men to their downfall. You won't even notice the moment she steals the heart right ou..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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caa56b6
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I've never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I've observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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81fe663
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Friends are the support bras of life.
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humor
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Lisa Kleypas |
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852d111
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I was ripe ten years ago. Now I'm merely preserved, and before long I'll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits." -Amanda to Jack"
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Lisa Kleypas |
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e8d244d
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Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
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religious
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Lisa Kleypas |
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5b1149a
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One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice from being killed. "Is this true, daughter?" Thomas Bowman had rumbled, his gaze filled with ire as he stared at Daisy. "It could be," she had allowed. "But there is another explanation." "And what is that?" Bowman had asked sourly. Her tone turned congratulatory. "I think we are hosting the most inte..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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a69633f
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I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes."
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men
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Lisa Kleypas |
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a8adcaf
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I want to give you whatever elusive, impossible, goddamned mysterious thing it is you need in order to be happy. Does that frighten you? Well, it frightens the hell out of me. Don't you think I'd stop feeling this way if I could? It's not as if you're the easiest woman in the world to--" He checked himself suddenly."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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eca3db8
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I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.
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romance
love
logic
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Lisa Kleypas |
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f86e2af
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But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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62ddcff
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I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you down with me." My hand crept up to caress the rigid line of his jaw. "Why'd you change your mind?" I whispered. "After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured . . . I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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b6978a8
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I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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d01cb75
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I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!"
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Lisa Kleypas |
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0a21b71
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One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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e88f36e
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Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it."
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Lisa Kleypas |
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683bdbf
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On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to pick bluebells. On Thursday they fished at the lake, returning with damp clothes and sun-glazed complexions, laughing together at a joke they didn't share with anyone else. On Friday they danced together at an impromptu musical evening, looking so well matched one of the guests remarked it was a pleasure to watch them. On Satur..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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12044c4
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He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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36cb5c4
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He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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210d98c
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Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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72be18d
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I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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a138875
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If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut." --
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Lisa Kleypas |
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1b4f1ab
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He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella
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jack-travis
male
sexy
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Lisa Kleypas |
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7bc50a7
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The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned.
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Lisa Kleypas |
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9af5f74
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I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking... ...I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me. 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. You would say it's too soo..
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Lisa Kleypas |
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f6e3248
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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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matthew-swift
scandal-in-spring
lisa-kleypas
wallflowers
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Lisa Kleypas |