The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.
Lisa Kleypas
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LISA KLEYPAS Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam ... LISA KLEYPAS I know when something is too important to be decided by logic. LISA KLEYPAS I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence ... LISA KLEYPAS Amelia stopped before him, her skirts crowded between his parted knees. The clean, salty, evergreen ... LISA KLEYPAS A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I st... LISA KLEYPAS The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never k... LISA KLEYPAS I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention. LISA KLEYPAS She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid... LISA KLEYPAS Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the e... 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LISA KLEYPAS It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love w... LISA KLEYPAS The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi. LISA KLEYPAS There was a fascinating duality about Matthew that Daisy had never encountered in another man. At so... LISA KLEYPAS With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of ... LISA KLEYPAS I cleared my throat and tried to sound casual, like this was no big deal. “I don’t even get chee... LISA KLEYPAS After watching—with a twinge of satisfaction—the letters burn to ashes in the fireplace, Evie fe... LISA KLEYPAS This club's no place for you, tibby," he had told her with gruff fondness. "You has to stay away fro... LISA KLEYPAS I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their ... LISA KLEYPAS The bargain…” she mumbled. “You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked ... LISA KLEYPAS Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a bac... LISA KLEYPAS Westcliff thinks that St. Vincent is in love with you.” Evie choked a little and didn�... LISA KLEYPAS My love is upon you. LISA KLEYPAS I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re... LISA KLEYPAS Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie. LISA KLEYPAS Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. LISA KLEYPAS My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. LISA KLEYPAS Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them."<... LISA KLEYPAS I don't share my body heat indiscriminately. LISA KLEYPAS If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness…... LISA KLEYPAS I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.” “From all indicatio... LISA KLEYPAS A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie ... LISA KLEYPAS I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to disli... LISA KLEYPAS Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” LISA KLEYPAS What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to s... LISA KLEYPAS He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise. LISA KLEYPAS Lately I've become so damned distracted that I can't make a decision about anything. I can't think c... LISA KLEYPAS Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the ... LISA KLEYPAS Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders... LISA KLEYPAS It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comm... LISA KLEYPAS I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going ... LISA KLEYPAS I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your so... LISA KLEYPAS It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lor... LISA KLEYPAS You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things... LISA KLEYPAS The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk. LISA KLEYPAS Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, o... LISA KLEYPAS Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ... LISA KLEYPAS I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his. "How much?" He made a slig... LISA KLEYPAS Annabelle’s eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like... LISA KLEYPAS It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he... LISA KLEYPAS The surprise and relief of being held so securely by a friend she had not expected to see overwhelme... LISA KLEYPAS Sebastian encountered Cam in the hallway outside the reading room. “Where is he?” he demanded wi... LISA KLEYPAS Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them.... LISA KLEYPAS When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Wel... LISA KLEYPAS You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lor... LISA KLEYPAS The thing you never want your sister to be," my brother informed me, "is an unidentified woman on th... LISA KLEYPAS Cat doesn’t have to work. She’s a woman of independent means. 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