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Feb 11, 2011 09:21AM

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"Nikki Heat pondered red lights and why they seemed to last so much longer when there was no traffic."


prologue
late 1800's
Devlin stood immobile as the spectral girl approched.
Chapter One
present day
Ani pulled open a side door to the stable.
Their not really draw you into the book type sentences but I love this series.
I feel like someone already posted this, but I didn't see it.
"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed--and all because of a ferret."

"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed--and all because of a ferret."

Kleypas has definitely changed my opinion of historical romances.
I think you asked me that 2 weeks ago. =) I'm liking it. I'm reading through them rather quickly.


"I release you...I release you Lenah Beaudonte...Believe...and be free. Those were the last words I could remember."


"I'll say one thing about walking around with a rubber band up your asscrack--it helps train you for torture."


"Had Ediolon been anywhere but the hospital, he would have killed the guy pleading for his life before him."
I don't have the book on me for an exact quote, but the ... is because it has to be changed to a human girl walks into a bar.


Midnight Alley
The instant the phone rang at the glass house, Clarie knew with a psychic flash that it was her mother.


It has 3 short stories, I only really liked the first one, which is where the quote's from.

"I started wearing a Mohawk to repeal low-lifes -- barflies, vampires, Republicans, and so on -- but when I found my true profession my hairstyle turned into an ad."


"I started wearing a Mohawk to repeal low-lifes -- barflies, vampires, Republicans, and so on -- but when I found my true profession my hairstyle turned into an ad.""
I read that one a while back and really liked it for a first book. I am interested to see what you think.

"'I find that a Ming bowl is like a woman's breast,' Sir Lyndon Mather said to Ian Mackenzie, who held the bowl in question between his fingertips."
Umm..okay?


Prologue
"My philosophy is pretty simple-any day nobody is trying to kill me is a good day in my book"


The cold snap of the previous week was over; the sun was shining brightly as Clary hurried across Luke's dusty front yard, the hood of her jacket up to keep her hair from blowing across her face.


Pia was blackmailed into committing a crime more suicidal than she could possibly have imagined, and she had no one to blame but herself.

"Romance, in Emmaline's opinion, made being a woman special."
I like the rest of the paragraph: "Romance made every woman beautiful, and every man a prince. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.


"I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged.""
That sounds like bad days I've had. ^_-
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