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| 0cb91cb | The ambulance arrived when the police cars did. They were accompanied by a man in a black suit who had the look of a federal agent. It didn't surprise Cecily that he went right up to Tate and drew him to one side. While Cecily was being checked over by a paramedic, Gabrini, who'd already been loaded onto a gurney, was being watched by two police officers. Tate came back to Cecily while the federal agent paused by the police officers. "You c.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 2b02385 | I want to stay here," she said quietly. He drew in a short breath, still full of adrenaline from the violence and still fuming because she was rejecting him. He looked into her eyes. "My parents want you to come home so that they can be near their first grandchild." Her eyebrows lifted. "That's a new angle," she said. "Pulling out all the stops, are you?" He glared at her. "Don't think I can't live without you, even if you are carrying my s.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| a295865 | Colby Lane and Pierce Hutton had the manager of Tate's apartment building open his door for them. They knew that Tate had come back from Tennessee, and that he'd saved Cecily from Gabrini, but nobody had seen him for almost a week. His answering machine was left on permanently. He didn't answer knocks at the door. It was such odd behavior that his colleague and his boss became actually concerned. They were more concerned when they saw him .. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 2214fb2 | Seen Tate lately?" Colby asked carelessly. She stiffened. "No." He looked down at her with a wry grin. "It was a boring banquet, anyway. You made all the news shows that night, and I hear one of the bigger late-night television hosts did a monologue about it!" "Go ahead," she invited with a gesture. "Rub it in." "I can't help myself," he said with an involuntary chuckle. "I believe it's the first time in American political history that an e.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| e32e0f6 | He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain. | man man-woman | Diana Palmer | |
| 05267e2 | So the bloodline wasn't pure." He shook his head. "It was an excuse, like all the other excuses. I liked my life as it was. I didn't want ties, especially the sort I'd have had with you." He looked at her with pure raging desire. "I knew if we were ever intimate, there'd be no going back. I was right. I eat, breathe, sleep and dream you, especially now, with my baby growing in your belly." | Diana Palmer | ||
| 93e979b | Guilt. Torment. Sorrow. Shock. Which?" she asked against his chest. "I'm trying," he murmured on a weary chuckle. "But all I can manage is pride," he added softly. "I satisfied you completely, didn't I?" "More than completely," she murmured against his damp shoulder. Her hand traced his chest, feeling the coolness of his skin, the ripple of muscle. "Hold me close." He wrapped both arms around her and drew her on top of him, holding her hung.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| fb1bbfd | Pierce Hutton gave him a highly amused smile as they went over updated security information from the oil rig in the Caspian Sea. "So you've finally decided to do something about Cecily," Peirce murmured. "It's about time. I was beginning to get used to that permanent scowl." Tate glanced at him wryly. "I thought I was doing a great job of keeping her at arm's length. She's pregnant, now, of course," he volunteered. The older man chuckled he.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 9b08757 | Be careful. Be extra careful." "I will. You do the same," she added with a chuckle. "I'm a tough old bird," he told her. "Otherwise, I wouldn't still be alive in the first place," he assured her. "You eat properly and take your prenatal vitamins." "Stop mothering me," she muttered. He grinned. "Somebody has to. See you, kid." | Diana Palmer | ||
| 6349957 | Colby was quietly shocked to find Tate not only at his door the next morning, but smiling. He was expecting an armed assault following their recent telephone conversation. "I'm here with a job offer." Colby's dark eyes narrowed. "Does it come with a cyanide capsule?" he asked warily. Tate clapped the other man on the shoulder. "I'm sorry about the way I've treated you. I haven't been thinking straight. I'm obliged to you for telling me the .. | Diana Palmer | ||
| bc0a0e9 | His hand felt odd against her swollen belly. She started to speak at the same moment that the baby suddenly moved. Tate's hand jerked back as if it had been stung. He stared at her stomach with pure horror as it fluttered again. She couldn't help it. She burst out laughing. "Is that...normal?" he wanted to know. "It's a baby," she said softly. "They move around. He kicks a little. Not much, just yet, but as he grows, he'll get stronger." "I.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| bfa8063 | She spotted Matt Holden and her eyes began to twinkle. He was a handsome devil, even at his age. His wife had died the year before, and the husky black-eyed politician with his glimmering silver hair and elegant broad-shouldered physique was now on every widow's list of eligible. Even now, two lovely elderly society dames were attacking from both sides with expensive perfume and daring cleavage. At least one of them should have worn somethi.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| c5623f8 | Stop staring and call your brother', Dane snaps over his shoulder as he heads toward the stairs. | Jane Porter | ||
| 3a5bc6b | Makin, my friend, I thought you were just seeing her safely home." "I was." "What happened?" "I couldn't let her go." | romance | Jane Porter | |
| 9dbca4e | I would. I could stand on my feet without you." "And the tide would still go out without my pushing it. The spring will still melt the snow without my warm breath nagging it. You're a person, all on your own, with hopes and thoughts and dreams completely separate from mine. Do you think I want a woman who needs to lean on me to be complete? I don't, dearling, I want only you, as whole and self-sufficient and tender as you are. I want to kno.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 95355b7 | She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form. | christina-dodd fear life monster suspense thriller virtue-falls | Christina Dodd | |
| 9a5fd6a | For as long as I could remember, I had always been the girl who had watched her father kill her mother. | Christina Dodd | ||
| dda023a | I have never seen an unclad male form in my life, and I haven't suffered for the lack." "By an extraordinary coincidence, I haven't seen an unclad male form in my life, either. I'd say it's time to remedy the situation." Tugging his shirt open, Amy peered down at his chest. "We can't look at him when he's unconscious! It's . . . it's immoral." Miss Victorine fanned herself with her handkerchief. Coal watched the white cotton as if contempla.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 95d53f9 | I've been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch. | paranormal suspense | Christina Dodd | |
| c7be1ed | They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, "This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in." | road | Christina Dodd | |
| 0bffcc7 | I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders. | love-story paranormal-romance suspense | Christina Dodd | |
| c8607ef | She was no longer a coward, forcing bravery from herself--she was brave. "You're not going to kill me," she said, and with swift impatience, she jabbed her elbow in his gut." | Christina Dodd | ||
| a66662e | I won't walk through the wedding arch with you," she said. "The arch is traditionally used by grooms with reluctant brides, for the arch is tall enough for a man with his woman on his shoulder." As they reached the door, he bent and put his shoulder in her stomach. As if she were a sack of potatoes, he swung her up and over. Amy shrieked and gave his back a good hard thump. He dropped her down until her rear sat uppermost on his shoulder an.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| c05b143 | Because late night, when I made you mine--" "Shush. You didn't!" "All right. Last night when you made me yours--" She definitely heard Pom snort." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 3b7f4b5 | She glanced over her shoulder at him. "So until the wedding ceremony in your chapel, we'll be chaste?" Her smile flirted and taunted, and he marveled at how quickly Amy had learned to entice. "There is an advantage with living in a building that was once an abbey." "What is that, Jermyn?" She pulled on her tattered gloves. Biggers moaned softly. "The place is riddled with secret passages," Jermyn told her. "But my lord! You're not suggestin.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| d74588a | No soldier likes the thought of losing his best friend and favorite toy. | Glen Cook | ||
| 5d0ec6a | How long can human beings ache before their hearts close off the wound? | Lewis Perdue | ||
| d871aa1 | We were on Barrow Street now. "Who is the man with the scar?" I said. She shot me a glance, and her face hardened. "You saw him?" "How could I miss? He was the real center of attention. Didn't you go to the opening at all?" "No" She said. "And just because you saw him doesn't mean he was there." | mystery | Nicholas Christopher | |
| 3364821 | I must tell you I've just been reborn." "Nicholas, you always think you can do things better than your mother. You can be sure you were born quite adequately on the first occasion." | Christopher Fry | ||
| ff06abb | The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to "vastly overvalue what happens to us right now," as Union College psychologist Christopher Chabris explains. We crave the new even when we know that "the new is more often trivial than essential." | Nicholas Carr | ||
| c244752 | By the beginning of the fifth century Catholic Christians lived as subjects of an empire they could no longer consider alien, much less wholly evil. [...] By the beginning of the fifth century few who dealt with the government firsthand - certainly not Chrysostom and finally not Augustine either - would have identified it with God's reign on earth. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| 9c38c2c | I did not want to die, but desperately wanted to be anywhere but there; the pain was unbearable. Yet in that vision, or whatever it was, I felt that the intertwined knots were the connections with the people we loved, and that nothing else could have kept us in this world. | death grief loss mourning religion | Elaine Pagels | |
| 38b3956 | Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death--even when we've done everything possible to prevent it? Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists observe; no doubt that's one reason why people still tell the story of Adam and Eve, which interprets suffering that way. | bible death grief guilt illness loss mourning punishment suffering | Elaine Pagels | |
| 9673a85 | Shaken by emotional storms, I realized that choosing to feel guilt, however painful, somehow seemed to offer reassurance that such events did not happen at random.... If guilt is the price we pay for the illusion that we have some control over nature, many of us are willing to pay it. I was. To begin to release the weight of guilt, I had to let go of whatever illusion of control it pretended to offer, and acknowledge that pain and death are.. | death grief guilt loss mourning nature pain suffering | Elaine Pagels | |
| 37fcf01 | What clear is that meaning may not be something we . We found no meaning in our son's death, or in the deaths of countless others. The most we could hope was that we might be able to meaning. | grief loss meaning mourning | Elaine Pagels | |
| d7a05f3 | No longer married, suddenly I was . From Latin, the name means "emptied." Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our lives. Shattered, the word kept recurring; the whole pattern shattered, just as the mountain rocks had shattered his body." | families grief loss mourning relationships widows | Elaine Pagels | |
| 3d8f8b1 | So long as Christians remained members of a suspect society, subject to death, the boldest among them maintained that, since demons controlled the government and inspired its agents, the believer could gain freedom at their hands only in death. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| 84240c4 | Are we to believe that Adam and Eve actually heard God's footsteps rustling in the garden of Eden, as the text suggests, when it says that Adam and Eve hid themselves, | Elaine Pagels | ||
| b0bf01b | A Jaynesian understanding of consciousness and its implications for rhetoric also helps explain the deep distrust of rhetoric that emerges at the same time rhetoric itself does. From the first writings overtly discussing persuasion as a civic art, we also see attacks on rhetoric as a practice that disregards the truth, can make what is bad seem good, and has an uncanny power to enrapture an audience. One of the best examples of this sort of.. | Marcel Kuijsten | ||
| 4ce7284 | Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| 0abfa67 | Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoons with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| 0b8ae0e | Intelligence is far from blood types. While test scores are unquestionably heritable, their heritability is not 100 percent. It sits instead somewhere near the middle of the range of possibilities. While identical twins often end up with similar test scores, sometimes they don't. If you get average scores on intelligence tests, it's entirely possible your children may turn out to be geniuses. And if you're a genius, you should be smart enou.. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 823265c | Based on the number of viruses she found in her samples, Proctor estimated that every liter of seawater contained up to one hundred billion viruses. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 19537c3 | I am a single, useless snail-loathing datum. | Carl Zimmer |