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fa1e5da
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You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red." He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. "I think you have to marry me now. You're the first woman besides Loo who's seen her and known what she is. I'm pretty sure we're engaged."
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Nora Roberts |
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8666336
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What good are laws if they're not human?
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Nora Roberts |
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70a572f
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I'd have given you everything I had. If you'd needed more, I'd have found it, and given you that. It's the way I love. It's the only way I know how.
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romance
love
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Nora Roberts |
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067fe30
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In my world, the self-righteous are often the ones sneaking around getting blow jobs before they go home to the wives and kiddies.
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Nora Roberts |
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ac75717
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Um ano e um seculo quando se espera o amor.
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nora roberts |
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5618d5b
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It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.
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Nora Roberts |
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2e83136
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You can never read too many books, any kind.
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Nora Roberts |
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7abf11c
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Just so we know where we stand, darling." "I'll tell you just where we stand, .I don't need your insulting offer.I'm running my life my way." "And that's been such a rousing success so far." "I know what I'm doing.Take that ridiculous smirk off your face." "I can't.It sticks there every time you say you know what you're doing." But he tucked all the papers back in his briefcase, closed it. "I'll say this,I don't think it's an entirely moro..
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Nora Roberts |
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cfa4a4e
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Kate studied the clipboard and the pocket calculator on the floor. "Did you figure out how to work that thing?" "You don't have to be a CPA to use a calculator." "I meant the clipboard." "Ha ha."
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Nora Roberts |
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a98eabb
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We are so miserably shallow Josh, how do we stand ourselves?
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Nora Roberts |
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509efb8
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Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.
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Nora Roberts |
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8394280
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Imagine my surprise, my ditress, when one of our regular patrons raced screaming into camera range,her Templeton Spa robe flapping open, her eyes wild as she sputtered accusations about being attacked-bodily attacked-by Laura Templeton Ridgeway and her cohorts." "Oh,Josh,I'm so sorry." Laura turned her head away, hoping he'd take it for shame.It would never,never do to laugh. He showed his teeth. "One snicker,Laura. Just one." "I'm not snic..
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Nora Roberts |
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e9f406a
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Stop thinking of yourself as a reflection of what a man saw in you, andbe. I asked you if it bothered you that people will talk. I wish you'd said the hell with people. Let them talk. It's time you gave them something to talk about.
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Nora Roberts |
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bc02ea2
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I'll be sure to pass your comments along to the manager-after I fire him for letting you in." "Don't be cranky,Josh." She slanted her most persuasive smile his way, only slightly annoyed when she saw it didn't make a dent. "I'm sorry I woke you up.I wasn't thinking about the time." "Not thinking is one of your most highly honed skills." "I'm not going to fight with you, and I'm not going to apologize for not sleeping with you just because y..
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Nora Roberts |
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d3e6189
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What the hell are you doing?" "What the hell does it look like I'm doing?" "It looks like you're putting pants on that dog." "Then that's what the hell I'm doing."
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Nora Roberts |
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d68111b
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A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.
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marriage
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Nora Roberts |
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44c7f0a
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If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her.
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Nora Roberts |
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420745e
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What the hell is all this I read in the papers?" "Narrow it down for me," Alan suggested. "I suppose it might have been a misprint," Daniel considered, frowning at the tip of his cigar before he tapped it in the ashtray he kept secreted in the bottom drawer of his desk. "I think I know my own flesh and blood well enough." "Narrow it just a bit further," Alan requested, though he'd already gotten the drift.It was simply too good to end it to..
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You asked him to go to bed with you?" "I did, and you'd think I'd smashed him in the balls with my wrench. So that's the end of that." Jude folded her hands, leaned forward. "I'm going to pry." Brenna's lips twitched. "Oh, you haven't started that yet?" "Not nearly. What exactly did you say to him?" "I said, plain enough, that I thought we should have sex. And what's wrong with that?" she demanded, gesturing with her spoon. "You'd think a m..
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Nora Roberts |
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Hey,man,got a problem?" "Veronica left me." Ivan crossed one leg over the other and was obviously jiggling his foot. "Oh,yeah? For some other guy, huh?" "No." "How come?" Macintosh never altered positions, and the very absence of action made the point. "Because I was selfish, rude, arrogant,dishonest, stupid and generally nasty." Ivan considered the toe of his boot. "Is that all?" "Yeah." "Women," Ivan said with a shrug. "Never satisfied." ..
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Nora Roberts |
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5b3e7a9
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Love's not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It's real and vital, and it's necessary. Damn it.
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Nora Roberts |
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cf1c6fb
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You're as pretty as she is." "Don't be saying such things loud enough for herself to hear you, or she'll skin us both." Touched and amused, she kissed his cheek. And Shawn came through the door. It would have been comical, she decided, and was a pity that no one noticed but herself noticed the way he stopped dead in his tracks, stared, then jolted when the door swung back and slapped him in the ass. I liked how she was trying to make him je..
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Nora Roberts |
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0b54427
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He waved cheerfully, then opened the door, tripped over the threshold, and as his balance was already impaired, nearly went face down on the floor for the second time that day. He caught himself, hung on to the side of the counter, and waited for the pub kitchen to stop revolving. With the careful steps of the drunk, he walked over to the cupboard to get out a pan for frying, a pot for boiling. Shawn was singing in his break-your-heart voic..
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Nora Roberts |
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47b7409
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I thought it was just a longing for you, and that would be enough for both of us. I do long for you, but it's not enough and it's not all. Oh, this is where I want t be.
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Nora Roberts |
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37d069e
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Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.
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Nora Roberts |
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3bac8d5
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Doing nothing sometimes hurts more than doing something. Life doesn't come with a guarantee, which is just as well, because most guarantees are bullshit.
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life
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Nora Roberts |
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452562e
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You're not beautiful," he said in a quiet statement that made her brow knit. "Why do you look beautiful when you're not?"
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Nora Roberts |
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c067068
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Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care.
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Nora Roberts |
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I want to come home. Not just for a few days or a couple weeks. I want to stay. Can I stay?" Cam drew off his sunglasses, and his eyes, smoke-gray, met Seth's. "What the hell's the matter with you that you think you have to ask? You trying to piss me off?" "I never had to try, nobody does with you. Anyway, I'll pull my weight." "You always pulled your weight. And we missed seeing your ugly face around here." And that, Seth thought as they w..
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Nora Roberts |
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I figure if you've got to take someone down or set them straight, you might as well enjoy it on some level. Malcom
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Hello." Her mood deflated as if she'd been pricked with a pin. "Alan." "Shelby." She struggled not to be moved by the quiet,serious tone that should never have moved her.She liked men with a laugh in their voice. "Alan, this has to stop." "Does it? It hasn't even started." "Alan-" She tried to remember her decision to be firm. "I mean it. You have to stop sending me things. You're only wasting your time." "I have a bit to spare," he said mi..
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Nora Roberts |
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94b7730
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Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...
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Nora Roberts |
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A pair of aces," Daniel said with a fierce look in his eye. Justin set his cards down quietly and faceup. "Two pair.Jacks and sevens." He sat back as Caine swore in disgust. "You son of-" In frustration, Daniel broke off, shifting his eyes from his daughter to Shelby. "The devil take you, Justin Blade." "You're sending him off prematurely," Shelby commented, spreading her cards. "A straight,from the five to the nine." Alan walked over to lo..
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Nora Roberts |
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9eee2a2
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He wouldn't just be facing her, he thought with genuine, back-sweating fear, but all of them. The four of them, with Mrs. Grady for backup. They'd roast his balls.
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Nora Roberts |
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ba78aca
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He works fast," Alan commented as he lifted his wine. "David?" Shelby sent him a puzzled look. "Actually his fastest sped is crawl unless he's got a guitar in his hands." "Really?" Alan's eyes met hers as he sipped, but she didn't understand the amusement in them. "You only stood him up tonight, and already he's planning his wedding to someone else." "Stood him-" she began on a laugh, then remembered. "Oh." Torn between annoyance and her ow..
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Nora Roberts |
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68a5ad6
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Philip ripped at the wrapper of the plain, inadequately thin Hershey bar. "No almonds." "I don't care for nuts." "You proved that when you slammed your foot between the legs of your friend this evening."
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philip
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Nora Roberts |
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3bfbfa5
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You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying." --
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Nora Roberts |
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5e11ced
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The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.
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Nora Roberts |
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c87e2f3
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I'm used to keeping things to myself, it's habit.And then...And then I kept things from you because the harder I fell in love with you,the more terrified I was. Look,damn it, I didn't want to depend on anyone for-" He broke off to drag a hand through his hair. "For what?" "For being there when I needed them," he said on a long breath."
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Nora Roberts |
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b9238e0
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They'd look attractive together because they're both attractive. That's not the same thing as right.
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Nora Roberts |
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Clever enough when it suits you, aren't you?" "I have my moments. That cat's out," he continued as he took his own jacket from the hook. "Take no pity on him should he come scratching at the door. Bub knew what he was when he insisted on moving out here with me." "Did you remember to feed him?" "I'm not a complete moron." Unoffended, he wrapped a scarf around his neck. "He has food enough, and if he didn't, he'd go begging at your kitchen d..
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Nora Roberts |
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e4a6357
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It was a lie, of course, and she was prepared to confess it to her priest. But she'd be damned if she'd tell him she'd been playing with his music. Her pride was worth the penance. He felt a quiver in his heart that he took for sympathy. "There, Brenna darling. Have you gone and fallen in love on me?" She jerked, whirled, gaped at him. He was watching her with such--such affection, such patience and sympathy. She could have beaten him bla..
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Nora Roberts |
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ca6e741
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It's only thunder." "It just startled me," she said, her eyes on his. "I'm not afraid of storms.' "Let's see." Still, he moved slowly, taking his time as much to prolong this new moment as to gauge her reaction. He laid his hands on her hips as the rain beat and splashed, sliding them up her body, smooth and easy as he lowered his head, paused-one long breath-then fit his mouth to hers."
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Nora Roberts |
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a7a5747
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Romance made every woman beautiful, and every man a prince. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
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Nora Roberts |