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1 " If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for? "
― Lisa Kleypas , Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1)
2 " A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him. "
3 " Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands. "
4 " Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. "
5 " You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones "
8 " Some folks are happier not being saved. "
9 " ... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect. "
10 " And although I appreciated their kindness more than they would ever know, it's a fact that friends last longer the less you use them. "
11 " Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is. "
12 " A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one. "
13 " Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. "
14 " Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. "
15 " And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness. "
16 " His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing. "
17 " You're so full of it, darlin'. "
18 " Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new. "
19 " I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis "
20 " I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk. "