She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.


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Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a s...
LISA KLEYPAS
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the agg...
LISA GANSKY
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my youn...
LISA LOEB
I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and...
LISA KLEYPAS
There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, ...
LISA MURKOWSKI
Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
LISA UNGER
Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ow...
LISA GANSKY
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor ca...
LISA JAKUB
At work, we have fantastic catering people. They feed the cast and crew all day, and they're sen...
LISA EDELSTEIN
I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a mo...
LISA LOEB
South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. The...
LISA MORTON
It’s like I’m suddenly a hormonally charged teenager or living in a bad romance novel: I suddenl...
LISA DAILY
My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hid...
LISA LUTZ
Between the sisters' joined hands, the pressure of their pulses mingled in steady throbs. Daisy was ...
LISA KLEYPAS
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged...
LISA KLEYPAS
A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sus...
LISA KLEYPAS
Dear Deborah,

Words do not come easily for so many men. We are taught to be strong, to...
LISA WINGATE
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another...
LISA KUDROW
And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, b...
LISA SCOTTOLINE
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don'...
LISA BONET
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and sc...
LISA LING
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up...
LISA SEE
I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I ...
LISA LAMPANELLI
Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural ...
LISA VANDERPUMP
I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and see...
LISA LAMPANELLI
'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing...
LISA LUTZ
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie -...
LISA MURKOWSKI
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than...
LISA LING
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child...
LISA LUTZ
I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
LISA GARDNER
In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5t...
LISA MORTON
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
LISA MURKOWSKI
Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure ...
LISA RANDALL
My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her bac...
LISA GRAFF
We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore ...
LISA MURKOWSKI
I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprou...
LISA EDELSTEIN
'Baywatch' sucks so bad. I didn't watch it the first time around; I'm sure not going...
LISA LAMPANELLI
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between t...
LISA HANNIGAN
With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings o...
LISA LOEB
I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python...
LISA GRAFF
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of s...
LISA RANDALL
In Beverly Hills, it's very spoiled in terms of the quality of life. I think the climate and the...
LISA VANDERPUMP
Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I&...
LISA LING
If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write anoth...
LISA JAKUB
For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
LISA LESLIE
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone thro...
LISA VANDERPUMP
I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or...
LISA GANSKY
Damn it. What are we exactly calling a 'masculine problem'? Did he have trouble running the flag up?...
LISA KLEYPAS