Lisa Kleypas - Devil in Winter (2006)

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Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

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I'll take your bet, he said grimly. I'm going to win it. And in three months, I'm going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.

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Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

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What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people." "No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.

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That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he's a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

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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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Ghost? St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. Christ. You're not serious, are you? "I'm a Gypsy, Cam replied matter-of-factly. Of course I believe in ghosts. Only half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational. The other half is Irish, Cam said a touch apologetically. Christ, St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.

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The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

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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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He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

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Evie came his faint whisper I'm going to your mother see…she's got 'em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into 'eaven.

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It's impossible, he snapped. Why? Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.

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I've never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

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I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

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Ah, Evie, she heard him say softly, I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil. Only your heart? she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. Also a few other things, he conceded. And as my wife, it's your duty to ease all my aches.

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I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience. From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men.

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The bargain… she mumbled. You said I could kiss you, came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. But, my love…you didn't specify where.

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Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

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My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

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If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

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