[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.


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No puedes esperar que existan los finales felices. Tienes que creer en ellos. Luego haz el trabajo, ...
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Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of ...
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It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, wit...
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He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.
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When you wait all your life for something and then you find it, it's like a miracle. All the parts i...
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Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC
I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.
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Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake ...
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Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who...
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You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, ...
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And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
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If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.
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He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu...
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He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu...
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In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
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When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.
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Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
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Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths a...
NORA SAKAVIC
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS
This was everything he wanted, everything he needed, and Neil was never letting go.
NORA SAKAVIC
Fight because you don't know how to die quietly. Win because you don't know how to lose. This king's...
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Now that number was gone, covered up by the jet-black image of a chess piece. Neil's knowledge of ch...
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Thank you," he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the...
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I hate you,” Andrew said casually. He took a last long drag from his cigarette and flicked it off ...
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Andrew dug a finger in Neil's cheek and forcibly turned his head away. "Don't look at me like that. ...
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This isn’t about the Ravens. This is about you. This is about everything it took you to get to thi...
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This,” Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, “isn’t worthless.”
“There...
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He taught me to believe in myself. He showed me how to balance my faith and my sexuality, and he mad...
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Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay. This is not news to you. B...
NORA SAKAVIC
Neil thought about Renee's bruised knuckles, Dan's fierce spirit, and Allison holding her ground on ...
NORA SAKAVIC
Make them love you, make them hate you, I don't care. Just make them look at you.
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It's not the world that's cruel," Neil said. "It's the people in it.
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Keys meant Neil had explicit permission to be here and do what he liked. They meant he belonged.
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Remember this feeling. This is the moment you stop being the rabbit.
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Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick i...
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He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting.
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