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He leaned his head to me, his neck so close to my lips, I felt the heat coming off his skin. His bre... ILONA ANDREWS
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Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his e...
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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I rolled my eyes, trying to keep my eyes off his body, just the sight of his abs or arms was enough ... HOLLY HOOD He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflec...
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Ash didn't say anything, but I heard his faint sigh, as if he'd been holding his breath, and he drew... JULIE KAGAWA
[Marley has an easy confidence and claims his] childhood made me strong ... I know my father - throu... BOB MARLEY He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is th...
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... DREXEL DEAL I felt his other hand sear hot against my cheek. He bent his head, and in a voice that Jack couldn�...
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(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart ... LOUIS ZAMPERINI
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His forehead bumped softly against mine, his brilliant silver gaze searing into me. "I plan to keep ... JULIE KAGAWA I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was a...
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And then his voice echoed through my head. Merit. He silently called my name, even as h...
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I... STEPHEN FRY
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I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come... SARAH DESSEN
He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and... VERONICA ROTH Not fair,” I muttered. “Your sword was bigger than mine.”
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He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one u... COCO J. GINGER
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My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t... CAROL LEE
I’ll be your family now,” he says.“I love you,” I say.
I said that once, before I...
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The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to c... DAVID MITCHELL My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa...
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He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious... CASSANDRA CLARE
His head turns fractionally toward me, his eyes darkest slate. I bite my lip.“Oh, fuck the p...
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