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You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?"
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tests
school
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Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.
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love
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You did that on purpose." "Did what on purpose?" "Wore the don't-touch suit and the sex goddess perfume at the same time just to drive me crazy." "Listen to the suit, Quinn. Dream about the perfume."
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cameron-quinn
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Cut it out!" Phillip exploded. "Cut it out right now or I swear I'm going to pull over and knock your heads together. Oh, my God." He took one hand off the wheel to drag it down his face. "I sound like Mom. Forget it. Just forget it. Kill each other. I'll dump the bodies in the mall parking lot and drive to Mexico. I'll learn how to weave mats and sell them on the beach at Cozumel. I'll be quiet, it'll be peaceful. I'll change my name to Ra..
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Why do I find it irresistible when you tell me to go to hell so politely?
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I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy." Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier." "I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on." "I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. "I kno..
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Sometimes it's all you can do," he murmured. "Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out." "Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run."
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What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance"
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Being dead didn't make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch
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You're the woman in my life," he said. "Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way."
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Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.
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That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me." "Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking." "They're wise to fear me."
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Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.
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He'd find out, he thought and nodded as he rose. " Are you worried about you? " It surprised her, the gentleness in his voice, the light brush of his knuckles over her jaw. She could lean against him, she realized with a jolt. She could lay her head on that shoulder, close her eyes, and for a moment at least, everything would be all right. She nearly stepped forward before she decided it would be foolish. " You're not going to be nice to ..
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I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want."
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You put something behind you, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going.
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Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
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The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.
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Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?
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Do you always get away with the outrageous?" "Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?" "Don't waste your charm." "It's all right, I have more."
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Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.
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sex
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It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with.
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Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it.
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It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life
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Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.
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It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life? And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego ..
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human
spirit
life
old-houses
houses
years
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Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.
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He turned his head, kissed the top of her head. "I love you." "It sounds lovely in bed, in the dark, when everything's quiet." "Because it's true. And it'll be true in the morning."
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Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?
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romance
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She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?
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romantic
white
girl
ghost
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I want lots and lots of sex." "You really are the woman of my dreams." "First round, wet shower sex, after we scrape off a few layers of the Alaskan tundra, then a short and satisfying lunch break. Then a second round of make-the-mattress-sing sex." "I feel a tear of gratitude and awe forming in the corner of my eyes. Don't think less of me."
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He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that."
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Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.
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Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.
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suffering
living
shannon
nora-roberts
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Falling in love has nothing to do with time. It can take a year, or an instant. It happens when its ready to happen.
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Told you not to tell her." "That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship." "Build a relationship." Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. "You've been reading again." "Blow me."
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How the hell do I know what pisses a woman off?...Nobody knows because it can be any damn thing. It's an unsolved mystery. And the next day, that any damn thing is fine, and it's some other damn thing. No man knows.
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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
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risk
work
inspirational
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You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat."
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humor
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That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.
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Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.
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I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room--" "Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together , go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope."
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You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.
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I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.
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