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“And last but not least, do not flirt with me." - Willow
"Flirting is like breathing for me, Willow." - Corbin
"Good. Then maybe when you stop, you'll suffocate." - Willow”
― Becky Wade, Falling for You

“And understanding, I had learned, came more often through listening than only by seeing and drawing conclusions.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“Replacing the note and the page from the Bible back in the envelope, Rose folded her hands of the desk. "He gave you hope." Sandrine smiled, for Rose understood. "Oui. Christian knew I would need it in order to wait. He reminded me it is the noblest call to be brave, especially when everything within us would have us give in to our deepest fear. he tucked an address in our family Bible, right next to this page.”
― Kristy Cambron, The Paris Dressmaker: A Novel of WWII

“It is a gift - time is what we have been given. Whatever else our lot - whatever our legacy, our history, our burdens to bear - we have all been given time.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“You don't look at a book and see only paper and ink. You seem to - to somehow feel it. The heart who wrote it, the lives in the pictures taking on heartbeats so that you can look at the faces of the people in one book and recognize in them the souls from another.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“And Henri is why I mist do it. I have been asking myself who I intend to be when this war is over - the woman with much who gave little or the woman with little who gave much. That is always the question, isn't it, when we walk through the fire in our lives? And I now know the answer.”
― Kristy Cambron, The Paris Dressmaker: A Novel of WWII

“Perhaps I should apply my scholarship to your speech, milord. Labor over a dictionary of your peculiar language. 'Tis a great garble of words and growls, at least to my Northumbrian ears.”
― Laura Frantz, The Rose and the Thistle

“Maybe that's the point. Beauty changes as we change, doesn't it? The things we thought we were supposed to do and be once upon a time, they evolve as we do.”
― Kristy Cambron, The Paris Dressmaker: A Novel of WWII

“She didn't know why, but Roger's acceptance and understanding felt like a lemon mint balm to a part of her heart she hadn't known was sore.”
― Andrea Christenson, Can't Buy Me Love

“Her defenses had been bridged, compromised. She should have continued to find him maddening, even infuriating. NOT enthralling.”
― Laura Frantz, The Rose and the Thistle

“They were different people, with different kinds of lives, despite their shared criminal past.”
― Andrea Christenson, Can't Buy Me Love

“Perhaps now that he was well he could joke and call her his jailer - but what she'd really been was his rescuer.”
― Roseanna M. White, Yesterday's Tides

“So how do I know when to wash feet and when to roar?"

"Roar when you find something worth fighting for.”
― Michelle Sass Aleckson, Crazy for You

“She'd tried so hard to be good. To be quiet and obedient and not a nuisance. But her trying never seemed to accomplish much of anything.”
― Kimberly Duffy, The Weight of Air

“Her fingers tapped against her king. Her soft, graceful fingers. He could almost feel them twined with his. He'd not understood her gesture the first time she'd placed her hand in his. But when they'd knelt together in the chapel yesterday and she'd kept her hand wrapped with his, he'd taken comfort from her hold, felt somehow bolder with her by his side.”
― Jody Hedlund, Come Back to Me

“Mabel laughed. I can lift. I can pull and press and bear the weight of a hundred bricks. But I spent my entire life training to be strong, not useful. I can do nothing else.”
― Kimberly Duffy, The Weight of Air

“Maybe that's why her flat in New York City had never felt like home. Because deep down, Vivien longed to be somewhere where people knew her. Somewhere she belonged.”
― Susan May Warren, Then Came You

“Not exactly scintillating. Especially when what he most wanted was more time alone with Mabel. With his wife. With this woman he'd known for years but hadn't really seen.”
― Kimberly Duffy, The Weight of Air

“Why do you always have to change things? I'd like to remind you that I'm a guy. We fix things. And a detective. We solve things.”
― David James Warren, Set in Stone

“She was a captivating mix of temperamental, compassionate, and something he couldn't quite put his finger on but that he suspected was simply Gwendolyn wrapped up in a mesmerizing package.”
― Jen Turano, A Match in the Making

“Gwendolyn's heart melted on the spot as she realized the little girl in her arms, who could certainly be a terror at times, just needed what every little girl needed, someone to hug when her rag doll's arm got torn off by a woman who wanted to marry her father.”
― Jen Turano, A Match in the Making

“I flash my best Minnesota nice smile.”
― David James Warren, Set in Stone

“They want you to know they care. They heard about Kasha. Besides, this is the Minnesota way. We demonstrate affection through hot dish.”
― Susan May Warren, Right Here Waiting

“I feel the distinct urge to visit this inquiry agency simply for the drama that happens there.”
― Jen Turano, To Disguise the Truth

“She smiled and leaned against the back of the sofa, making herself comfortable. Around him. That counted as a proposal, right?”
― Roseanna M. White, To Treasure an Heiress

“He swallowed hard, part of him hoping this was an anomaly and the prickly, irritating woman would soon return. If he lost his ability to dislike her, would this new admiration, curiosity, and yes, attraction take over? That would doom him to a heartache he'd rather avoid.”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, Enchanting the Heiress

“If he dropped his head on the desk really hard, would it knock him low enough that he could move on to tomorrow morning, when he would once again be working with the horses?”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, Enchanting the Heiress

“Grey nodded at each, letting his gaze linger on Laila. He gave Christina a subtle so-so hand gesture.”
― Lynette Eason, Driving Force

“Boss closed his eyes and let his tongue dangle. grey wondered if he'd start drooling, the traitor.”
― Lynette Eason, Driving Force

“Of all the curveballs I'd been thrown, Val was the one I'd reach to catch over and over again.”
― Nicole Deese, All That It Takes