Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

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I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

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The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

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Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.

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I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick... accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.

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It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.

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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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Be careful dear that you don't end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

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Come on, Ella. Sleep green.' Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp. A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins.

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It was a confirmation of a connection that already existed. And it was a bond that extended far beyond the borders of a shared living space. We would have stayed together even without a marriage certificate... but I believed in the permanence it represented. It was a piece of paper you could build a life on.

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Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose.

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I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any.

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I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?" "For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy

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It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.

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To put to rest any doubts you might have… I'm jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I'm jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I'm jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight

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I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

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The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

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Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

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She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.

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Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

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The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.

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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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What are you listening to?" "I picked up a DVD for Luke while I was out. Something with Mozart and sock puppets." A grin rose to my lips. "At this stage I don't think Luke can see more than ten inches beyond his face." "That explains his lack of interest. I thought maybe he preferred Beethoven.

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To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

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I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...

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You can't love someone new without getting over the last one.

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I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.

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I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.

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Evie picked up the smallest of the rings and tried it on the fourth finger of her left hand. It fit perfectly. Raising it closer to her face, she examined the design. It was the simplest of all the rings, a polished gold band engraved with the words Tha Gad Agam Ort. What does this mean? she asked MacPhee. It says, 'My love is upon ye.

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The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis

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