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JEMISIN Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... STIEG LARSSON And because he loved her, it wouldn't matter that she wasn't twenty-two or thirty or forty anymore. ... KRISTAN HIGGINS she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the... PAULO COELHO He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with y... NIKKI ROWE Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got... KIM HARRISON His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL I love you." He stabbed a thumb at his chest as he glared at her. Of course he did. Lucien had ... KRISTEN CALLIHAN He loved her. Jay Heaton, her best friend since childhood was in love with her. He didn't say i... KIMBERLY DERTING He offered his love ... she could not bother, She gives her love to the other! The other! E.A. BUCCHIANERI She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-" “No.” She held on when he would have pulled aw... JILL SHALVIS To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intell... DORIS LESSING If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE Please be real,” she gasped. “Please don’t be a dream.” “I’m real,” Matthew said huski... LISA KLEYPAS She gets a man who will love her completely and faithfully. She gets a man who will not only save he... QUINN LOFTIS I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doe... VANESSA LACHEY Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more an... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love t... GUILLAUME MUSSO He murmured her name, tenderly taking her face in his hands. “I love you,” he said, his voice lo... JULIA QUINN That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her al... NICHOLAS SPARKS I love you," he said, holding her close and running his fingers through her tangled hair as if he co... DEBORAH BLAKE A person is likely to be better than others if he or she seeks all qualities of his or her character... ANUJ SOMANY She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ... ROBERT BLAKE They both had a broken heart, but she turned out to be cold hearted, he didn't lose hope because tha... DAVID BENTO GUERRA He is struck by her overview of his situation. It is as if she has understood his life. He is taken ... HILARY MANTEL Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear... CHARLES DICKENS There are only two ways that she loses. One is if some GOP Senators go see Karl Rove, and then Presi... FRED BARNES ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe... TIM O'BRIEN He that fears death loses the joys of life. JAN HUS Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell ... LOUISE PENNY He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, h... NICOLE KRAUSS As they walked toward the group waiting for them by the cars, Simon's hand brushed against Meg's. He... ANNE BISHOP End the eternal battle of beliefs once and for all. If you are a believer, love your fellow non-beli... ABHIJIT NASKAR The good news is he is doing much better. She does send her love and best wishes. ILANA KLOSS It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her ... LAUREN KATE His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could s... ANAïS NIN Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mea... CLARK DAVIS If he loses his temper that easily, where he has to kick somebody, then what's gonna happen next tim... ANITA THOMAS They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lo... ANDREA HURST Prove it!" she hissed. "Prove you are who you are!" "We don't have time for this! You really wa... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed... NICHOLAS SPARKS She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted h... LAUREN GILLEY Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love ... JENNIFER MCKEITHEN If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewher... ROBIN HOBB Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons... JANE AUSTEN An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as h... NICHOLAS SPARKS He took time to explain the course of the disease and he supported Karen and assured her that he wou... JOELLYN SCHULTZ Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, f... CASSANDRA CLARE Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman,... ANDREA DWORKIN His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. KIM EDWARDS He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ... A.S. BYATT His nostrils flared just a little bit, and the lines bracketing his mouth grew deeper. He snarled wi... ELIZABETH HOYT Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the lov... BIBLE The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crush... JUDITH MCNAUGHT He tore off her pajamas. She wasn't out with a fresh face of makeup with her hair done or a short dr... ANONYMOUS1234 Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had ... MELANIE DICKERSON She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren�... MARKUS ZUSAK The love from a mother will never be lost in her child’s heart. It may only be a victim and fogged... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE A man can love her woman, or he can be her husband. LJUPKA CVETANOVA A man can love her wife, or he can be her husband. LJUPKA CVETANOVA He has finally joined Gracie, ... That was his love. I know he missed her so terribly and now he wil... ANN MILLER For a 6-2 kid to have the range that she has is unique. Her work effort is really high, there is no ... BRENT HINTZ She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't ju... C.C. HUNTER She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled ... SARAH J. MAAS If everybody knows what his or her duty is then we will be more beneficial to our country. Everyone ... RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l... LEO TOLSTOY Biting her lip to stop her chin from quivering, Alexandra raised her eyes to his. "I think," she whi... JUDITH MCNAUGHT I was wrong. I should have never doubted you. I do trust you. I love you, and I can't do this anymor... KIMBERLY DERTING Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ... LISA KLEYPAS Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as h... PHILIPPA GREGORY He never should have left the island. He’d been there with Diana and Penny. He could have tossed P... MICHAEL GRANT There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would... GEORGE MACDONALD He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ... BLAISE PASCAL Do you think you might be able to love me someday?" He asked and heard her laugh softly. ... JASMINE DUBROFF She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN Harry has heard this before. Thelma's voice is dutiful and deliberately calm, issuing small family t... JOHN UPDIKE It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him ba... STEPHANIE PERKINS She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... CHIEF JOSEPH First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifest... ANUJ SOMANY He just threatened [the sister]. Apparently he told her he would kill her if she said anything. She ... TOM SMART He knew that she was to have an elaborate wedding, and the being who loved her most, who would love ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Jay showed up after school with a bouquet of flowers and an armful of DVDs, although Violet couldn�... KIMBERLY DERTING The Warrior Woman Code: A confident woman doesn't beg a man to stay, cry if they don't or... SHANNON L. ALDER Her gaze met his, her blue eyes filled with confusion and terror – and love. If Julian hadn’t al... PAMELA CLARE He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. ... PHILIPPA GREGORY I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have ... DEAN KOONTZ She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he k... VIRAJ J. MAHAJAN
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