The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.
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LISA KLEYPAS The defendant was setting up an alibi for himself.
BOB SLOMSKI In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the v...
LISA KLEYPAS When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence.
Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Wel...
LISA KLEYPAS He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Alin...
LISA KLEYPAS Where's your sense of adventure?
It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self...
HOWARD TAYLER You know, Ella, you're not the first woman who's ever been in this shower with me--"
"I'm shock...
LISA KLEYPAS Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH Occam's razor."
"Yes. When formulating a theory, eliminate as few assumptions as possible. In o...
LISA KLEYPAS I was very pleased with the way I played today because Lisa is very tough to play indoors,
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CHIP ARTHURS What was the value, really, of an alibi between lovers, friends, or family members? Idea for greetin...
JINCY WILLETT Eric was delusional and he believed he was killing an alien.
DAVID GOLDBERG 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
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ROBERT JOBSON Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders...
LISA KLEYPAS People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
EMO PHILIPS I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an ac...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL An alibi is only as good as its details.
KENNETH EADE The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you...
CASSANDRA CLARE Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.
LUIGINA SGARRO All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS He uttered a curse that startled her with its foulness, and gripped her head between his hands, forc...
LISA KLEYPAS I think probably the biggest thing is holding our composure because Eisenhower brought a lot of peop...
JOHN HAHN Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told.
LOUISE PENNY I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up...
MARILYN MONROE It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.
SIDNEY CROSBY All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of wr...
J. D. SALINGER I was really concerned at the half. They were killing us. The man defense made them work harder, and...
DAN MARSHALL “It doesn’t matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal...
CARLOS CASTANEDA An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet
JOSH STERN I think the evidence is going to be very clear that he has an absolutely rock solid alibi. And I thi...
BILL THOMAS Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."
Then let's be quiet together.
LEONARD COHEN People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alib...
EMO PHILIPS When Morrigan and Brighid created Aerric, he had no need for emotions, he only needed to be a great ...
BRYNN MYERS Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
NATHANIEL WING When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next...
ANGIE THOMAS Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat....
ANGIE MARTINEZ I thought football was what he needed, but being a manager has pushed him the other way.
IMRAAN LADAK I want to know what your five-dollar wish was for.”
“Is that all?” He smiled beneath her ...
LISA KLEYPAS Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.”
“Lying in ...
LISA KLEYPAS Matthew. I’m here. I’m yours. I want to do everything you’ve ever imagined doing with me.
LISA KLEYPAS No,” Lillian said frankly. “But much as I hate to admit it, that puts us in a minority. Swift is...
LISA KLEYPAS Swords are weapons. The way of swords is the way to kill. However you dress it up in righteousness, ...
HIKO SEIJURO He pushed me to another way. I ended up being a businessman for like 15 years after that. He always ...
ENOS CABELL It's a new jury, so I guess we have a new alibi. I would call it a desperate and insulting attempt t...
ERIC DUBIN Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's...
KURT VONNEGUT He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Basketball wasn't what it is today, ... Being brought up in the ghetto, my parents were told, long b...
OSCAR ROBERTSON You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don...
EMO PHILIPS Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
ADELAIDE CLEMENS I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was...
TRACEY EMIN I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
TOM STOPPARD We never needed for anything, ... My father was a simple man. That's the way he was, and that's the ...
HAL LEBOVITZ I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
JOHN C. DANFORTH At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having...
J.D. ROBB It's easier with Lisa back on the floor. But this has helped our kids step up and improve. They migh...
KRISTEN PETERSON As there was no saddle, Lisa said to the horse, “May I pull myself up?”
And damned if...
JACKIE KESSLER He was brought up in politics. He ran for state's attorney twice and lost both times.
GARY BELL I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bri...
MARK TWAIN that she regrets that this illness brought her to a place where she was capable of killing her own c...
GEORGE PARNHAM Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL When I needed him in the spot that I needed him, he was there.
COREY NAKATANI There's alibi witnesses other than Charlene, and there's phone records. These are the reasons why th...
MICHAEL DERISO He brought electronic music to the masses and changed the way we hear music. He's like an Einstein o...
CHARLES CARLINI I would hope that she sets it in the next game and gets it out of the way. Meg Rice was her mentor. ...
BARRY BLAUVELT I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER There was no way I would have been prepared to run that fast without the interval training that he b...
ROB CARTER I'd been at Valve since I got out of college. I felt like I kind of grew up there, and I wanted ...
KIM SWIFT He got hit in the jaw and it hurt all the way up to his ear. He was having some pain and some headac...
DOUG LUKE The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Dead is always a good alibi
SPENCER KOPE My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitio...
MATT GROENING He just said he brought up my name because he told them everything he was taking. I'm not mad at him...
MIGUEL TEJADA I think he brought in some things for them offensively that Ainge couldn't do and made some plays wh...
KYLE WILLIAMS We needed the weight of the live oaks brought up so they wouldn't split. It took a lot of trimming.
KATHERINE BROWN Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the...
ERIC HOFFER Lisa had an engineer's way of shrugging off the entire field of the humanities, all three thousand y...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN to go on killing until he was stopped.
DAVID RUBIN Harrisburg insider Lisa Baker is hosting an insider party for her insider friends.
JIM HAGGERTY The state is in a real bind. It has to come up with a painless way of killing without physicians inv...
DAVID MAGNUS It was a feeling I had. It wasn't' indicative of the way he was playing. That's not why I pulled him...
TRENT YAWNEY I mean, look at the way Morales refers to killing my sister in his clemency letter to the governor. ...
BRIAN CHALK Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
PAT ROBERTSON It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would en...
MICHAEL GRANT People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I...
ELIZABETH JAGGER My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things...
TOM BROKAW We say it was an intentional killing. To prove that, we intend to show the lifestyle of the defendan...
ED PARKINSON It would be a real failure if agreeing that it[abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alib...
ROWAN WILLIAMS He wasn't very good and he had on African pants, so the kids were making fun of him and killing him....
CHRIS CHANEY Lisa knows her way around Harrisburg, but she is not out of touch with the people in her district.
BRIAN GROVE My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a veget...
DAVID LACHAPELLE I always give credit where credit is due. He did a good job. He was hot tonight. He stepped up and d...
BRIAN CARLWELL When he was brought in, he was intoxicated.
ALLEN MOORE I
thought he was an each way chance
CLIFF BROWN I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I tr...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Youri was not pleased with the way he played early on. He seems to raise his level of play when most...
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�...
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Evie choked a little and didn�...
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LISA KLEYPAS I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your so...
LISA KLEYPAS It’s impossible,” he snapped.
“Why?”
“Because I’m Sebastian, Lor...
LISA KLEYPAS You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things...
LISA KLEYPAS The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
LISA KLEYPAS Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, o...
LISA KLEYPAS Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ...
LISA KLEYPAS I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his.
"How much?" He made a slig...
LISA KLEYPAS Annabelle’s eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like...
LISA KLEYPAS It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he...
LISA KLEYPAS The surprise and relief of being held so securely by a friend she had not expected to see overwhelme...
LISA KLEYPAS Sebastian encountered Cam in the hallway outside the reading room. “Where is he?” he demanded wi...
LISA KLEYPAS Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them....
LISA KLEYPAS When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence.
Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Wel...
LISA KLEYPAS You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lor...
LISA KLEYPAS The thing you never want your sister to be," my brother informed me, "is an unidentified woman on th...
LISA KLEYPAS Cat doesn’t have to work. She’s a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to a...
LISA KLEYPAS I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.
LISA KLEYPAS I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn ...
LISA KLEYPAS I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently lock...
LISA KLEYPAS Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent’s heart...
LISA KLEYPAS Take too much time, and time will take you.
LISA KLEYPAS Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”
“They’re ravi...
LISA KLEYPAS You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at ...
LISA KLEYPAS You took advantage of me while I was sleeping," she said breathlessly. "That's not fair."
Gent...
LISA KLEYPAS To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight.
His expression turned q...
LISA KLEYPAS Let's dispense with the nonsense, Victoria. This isn't a question of suitability, yours or his. You'...
LISA KLEYPAS He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to kn...
LISA KLEYPAS Evie…” His whisper stirred the tiny wisps at her hairline. “I want to make love to you.” LISA KLEYPAS Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never ...
LISA KLEYPAS In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westclif...
LISA KLEYPAS ... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.
LISA KLEYPAS I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from y...
LISA KLEYPAS I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they woul...
LISA KLEYPAS All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in o...
LISA KLEYPAS The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurk...
LISA KLEYPAS Clinging to him desperately, Sara kept her mouth at his ear. "Listen to me." All she could do was pl...
LISA KLEYPAS I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were g...
LISA KLEYPAS Pausing with the teacup near her lips, Helen said, "I would rather marry you. It will be an adventur...
LISA KLEYPAS Sturm und Drang?”
“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points o...
LISA KLEYPAS Drat. Daisy pulled back with a frown. She felt guilty that she had enjoyed the kiss so little...
LISA KLEYPAS