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It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But you ought to read the rest, just the same.'

'Why?'

'Because it has a happy ending.


Tessa Dare

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I just can't help myself.
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and ...
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'My accent?'
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Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful.
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Queen of the Air,
Why strive to crown that cruel crest
An...
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Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my ...
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a wound unmended--
you and I.

We had no ending,
...
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Everybody is breaking grounds; but you mus...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Sour Milk

You can't make it
turn sweet
again.
Once
it was an innocen...
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and swallow gods,
Why does it worry with helpless yesterda...
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Why would he have done that to him?"
I don't know," she s...
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Crawling's a curse,
Skipping is silly,
Walking is worse.
H...
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Just awaiting to be written.
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DEYTH BANGER I Like For You To Be Still

I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
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Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI FORKED BRANCHES


We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the...
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sisters and brothers, daughters and sons,
we discovered bones...
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this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was g...
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Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
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'He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.'
'Headless?'...
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romance as usual, us times us,

not lust but mox...
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there’s so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those wor...
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KELLY JONES We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same...
SUZY KASSEM If you have time to chatter,
Read books.

If you have time to read,
Walk into mo...
NANAO SAKAKI To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap. A.A. MILNE i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon SANOBER KHAN Teach me, Father, how to go
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of t...
EDWIN MARKHAM Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.


Read it ove...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Why did you look at the sunset?'
Philip answered with his mouth full:
Because I was happy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty...
E.E. CUMMINGS Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?

Why in lov...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Who are you?
How can one person be gregarious and a recluse
Open and closed at the same ti...
EVY MICHAELS The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labor...
MAX EHRMANN I haven't got time to read books.'

'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you d...
PAULO COELHO Time is expensive !
Then why it is free for many ??
Time is a gift !
Then why preciou...
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'Thats usually what headless means'
'No head at all?'
'Your really...
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the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER Wait," I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. "Where are you going?"...
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Jem said something that sounded like a ...
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Dare to stand alone.
Dare to have a purpose firm;
Dare to make...
THOMAS S. MONSON With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful...
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But no one noticed it;
Although I hoped that late or soon
Someo...
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will never be filled

a space

and even ...
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Consider me.
I sit here like Tiberius,
inscrutable and grand.
I will...
MARK HADDON He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th...
CASSANDRA CLARE i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and be...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
DOUGLAS WOOD ENDURANCE

I don't know you,
But I love you,
Just as God loves me and you.
...
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and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
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“Yes.” He didn’t dare move.
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I believe in the freedom of the open road.
And m...
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Talking to mushrooms (slime)
Listening to mushroom...
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A clock ticks and demands its due
The lava burns from the floor...
JUSTIN WETCH Don’t you dare say these times are hollow
Just because there are storms raging by.
Just ...
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to be like other people.
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do you remember
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"What will you...
HEYWOOD BROUN ...the traveler, travelling through it,
May not-dare not openly view it;
Never its mysteri...
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Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,
And that w...
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Yes! I'm so lonely.
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The barbarians are due here today.
Why is...
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When a shadow of sadness flickers by
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not always...
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She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express...
GEORGIA FOX I’m glad you’re quitting the bar."

"You are?"

"Yeah. I’ve never liked yo...
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I’m halfway through
and I’ve gotten used
to the way i...
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Weep, and you weep alone;
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Julian nodded. “Anything.”

�...
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pray that your journey be a long one,
filled wit...
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From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
Poor or...
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The darkness has a firm hold on me
There is a desire burn...
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The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
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I have seven heavenly panels
Leading up to a pointed sphere
I’m mul...
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Take the heat from the sun
Little sister...
U2 Dear Jack,

I love you, too.

And I think I know the secret to a long and happy ...
LISA KLEYPAS Hello," Life says, "Remember me?
We started out together here
When you were just a bundle<...
JACOB NORDBY A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld,—
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fea...
EMILY DICKINSON He wasn’t that careful, Lucan. I think you’ve got him mixed up with someone else.”

...
J.A. HUSS Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
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TESSA DARE Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.
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“Just the t...
TESSA DARE The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." ...
TESSA DARE Oh, dear." She let her head fall back to the pillow. "There it went. I've fallen in love with you no...
TESSA DARE Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours."
TESSA DARE What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.
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TESSA DARE Perhaps he would have no title or fortune to offer her, but he was determined to see her safe.
...
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TESSA DARE Truly? That whole determined, dangerous saunter across the room was for me? In that case, ...
TESSA DARE The dark scares you because it seems boundless. But it isn't as vast as it seems. You can explore it...
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TESSA DARE I’ve always tried to make the best of what life gave me. When I was a girl, I longed for a kitten....
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TESSA DARE Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest lik...
TESSA DARE Look at him. The man’s not delusional. He’s in love.
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TESSA DARE I don't care who he is. He needs to disappear." Ransom turned and called out the window. "For the lo...
TESSA DARE She was entirely unaware of the protocol when becoming acquainted with a man’s rampant sex organ. ...
TESSA DARE Of course you don't deserve her. No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to wi...
TESSA DARE Everything’s more amusing when read in voices.
TESSA DARE Prithee," He protested, "if thou wouldst waiteth a goddamned second-
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TESSA DARE Of course one kiss changes things. If it's done right, a kiss changes everything.
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TESSA DARE Every time you wake up, you let fly the most marvelous string of curses. It’s never the same twice...
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TESSA DARE Oh, but this gift isn’t the same as an ermine. This is property. Don’t you understand how rare t...
TESSA DARE He let his eyes flitter over her. “I don’t see anything ‘precisely.’ I can tell you’re sle...
TESSA DARE Astonishing. In the morning, when she sat working at that table of correspondence, silhouetted by su...
TESSA DARE For God’s sake. Don’t do that.”

“Don’t do what?”

“Smile.” TESSA DARE I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am."
His thumb stroked her...
TESSA DARE What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters ...
TESSA DARE No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a d...
TESSA DARE Mr. Sand, do you think it's possible to fall in love in the space of a single day?"

He sm...
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TESSA DARE Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced th...
TESSA DARE Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, min...
TESSA DARE Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not on...
TESSA DARE At least you've brought gifts. What's in the basket?"
She rummaged through the contents. "A few...
TESSA DARE Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid."

"Don't limit yourself. You can be anyth...
TESSA DARE Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gav...
TESSA DARE If you'll only let me hold you, I won't let you go.
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TESSA THOMPSON Nothing you did could have changed anything.
And that being angry and blaming yourself for not...
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TESSA THOMPSON Heaven left a hole in your heart.

But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be fi...
TESSA SHAFFER To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought t...
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TESSA THOMPSON Go to hell."
"I've already been there. I own property in it.
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Beside her, Daniel’s body...
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the way she insisted on pushing him back. “I�...
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