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141 " What happened was pain and pleasure and shock and satisfaction all rolled into one. Pain as he withdrew and thrust over and over again past the soreness of her newly opened womanhood. Pleasure because it was more wonderful, more exhilirating, than any other sensation she had ever experienced. Shock because she had not expected such a deep and vigorous and prolonged invasion of her body. Satisfaction because now, before it was too late, he was her lover. Because she would always be able to remember him as her lover "
― , Simply Magic (Simply Quartet #3)
142 " Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity. "
― , A Summer to Remember (Bedwyn Prequels, #2)
143 " You have become as necessary to me as the air I breathe,” he said. “Your beauty and your smiles wrap themselves about me and warm me to the heart—to the very soul. You have taught me to trust and to love again, and I trust and love you. I love you more than I have ever loved anyone. More than I knew it was possible to love. And if you think I am making an ass of myself with such romantic hyperbole just because I want to make you feel better about admitting that you are happy, then I am going to have to take drastic measures. "
― , First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet #1)
144 " He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude? "
― , The Proposal (The Survivors' Club, #1)
145 " It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing "
― , Simply Love (Simply Quartet #2)
146 " I would be more inclined to tell my children the opposite,” she said. “Stop being fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world. "
― , Then Comes Seduction (Huxtable Quintet, #2)
147 " Why is it we are not constantly awed by the size and majesty of the universe?” “Habit,” he said. “We are accustomed to it. I suppose if we had been blind from birth—in both eyes—and could suddenly see, we would be so overwhelmed by a night like this that we would either gaze upward at it until dawn or else cling to the earth, afraid that we were about to fall off. Or perhaps we would simply assume that we were at the center of it all and the lords of all we beheld.” The "
148 " La felicidad es siempre algo pasajero, fugaz. Nunca es un estado permanente para nadie aun que muchos perseveramos en creer la tonta idea de que si ocurriera esto o aquello seríamos felices el resto de nuestra vida. Tengo momentos de felicidad como la mayoría. Tal vez he aprendido a encontrarla de maneras que pasarían inadvertidas a algunas personas. Siento el calor del verano aquí en este momento, veo los árboles y el agua y oigo a esa gaviota invisible allá arriba. Siento la novedad de tener compañía cuando normalmente vengo aquí solo. Y este momento me produce felicidad. "
149 " But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling. "
150 " Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments. "
― , Slightly Sinful (Bedwyn Saga, #5)
151 " She wanted so badly to believe him. She sat on the edge of her bed and closed her eyes. And she realized what had been happening to her over the past weeks. He had been turning—so gradually that she had scarcely noticed the transition—from her nightmare into her dream. Because "
― , The Secret Pearl
152 " And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a soft exclamation of surprise "
153 " Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos... "
― , At Last Comes Love (Huxtable Quintet, #3)
154 " I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door. "
― , Simply Perfect (Simply Quartet, #4)
155 " Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species "
156 " Some instinct told her that this was usually done in darkness and with eyes tightly shut, that usually all the pleasure was hugged tightly to oneself, the pleasure-giver shut out. Even in her inexperience she sensed that lovers did not always love with eyes open and focused on each other’s whenever it was feasible to do so. "
― , More Than a Mistress (Mistress Trilogy #1)
157 " You have love all wrong, Gwendoline. It is not all give, give, give. It is taking as well. It is allowing the other one the pleasure and joy of giving. Let me love you. "
158 " There is something about boys,” she said, “that makes them think it is unmanly to show any feelings other than scorn and irritation or any enthusiasm for anything. It is a very unattractive trait. "
― , A Matter of Class
159 " It is impossible,” he said, “to put a label upon remembered feelings. They are colored too much by all our subsequent experiences. "
160 " Insults are only really effective," she said, "when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter "
― , The Temporary Wife