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Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6))
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Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.
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Ross Macdonald
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i love you Ivy. I'll never stop loving you."
"I prayed for one more chance to reach you," he said, "to tell you how much I love you and to tell you to keep on loving. Someone else was meant for you,Ivy, and you were meant for someone else.
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Elizabeth Chandler (Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates (Kissed by an Angel, #1-3))
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Sometimes love started with bewildering passion and then grew deeper through friendship; sometimes it started with deep friendship and surprised everybody-especially the two "best friends-with it's sudden romantic fire. Either way, love seemed both meant to be and a miracle.
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Elizabeth Chandler (Everafter (Kissed by an Angel #6))
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Experience had taught me not to get close to guys who fell in love with Liza. I had been burned twice and I knew I couldn't compete. It didn't matter that I could no longer give a guy access to my sister; if Mike knew who I was, I'd be access to romantic memories of her. He'd start looking for traits and signs of her in me. And I wasn't setting myself up for that kind of heartache.
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Elizabeth Chandler (No Time to Die (Dark Secrets, #3))
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Lasting romantic love has eluded Carolyn, however. After her divorce from Roy Bryant in 1975, she remarried at least twice and had another relationship with a man (last name Wren), with whom she lived for a time. On November 21, 1984, she wed Greenville resident Griffin Chandler, an employee at US Gypsum. The marriage ended three and a half years later with Chandlerβs death.144 The widowed Carolyn soon married again, this time to former Leland police officer David Donham.
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Devery S. Anderson (Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement)
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I look at her and it occurs to me that now is the part where my knees are supposed to go weak, and my breath is expected to catch in my throat, but as much as it pains me to disappoint all you bleeding-heart romantics out there, my knees are fine and the rate of my breathing is undisturbed. The Hallmark Channel has my condolences.
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Chandler Morrison (Dead Inside)
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I'm a romantic, Bernie. I hear voices crying in the night and I go to see what's the matter. You don't make a dime that way. You got sense, you shut your windows and turn up more sound on the TV set. Or you shove down on the gas and get far away from there. Stay out of other people's troubles. All it can get you is the smear. . . . You don't make a dime that way. You wouldn't do it. That's why you're a good cop and I'm a private eye.
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Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6))
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Recalling an old movie version of the play, starring lovely Helen Chandler, I chipped in, βIsnβt Outward Bound that old Sutton Vane story from the 1920s about people who find themselves on a ship bound for nowhere, before they realize some of them are dead?
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Bobby Underwood (Atelier: A Romantic Fantasy)
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When the person youβre attracted to goes through something difficult, it is evidence of her humanity if she is sad, stressed, or wounded. But what she does with that sadness, stress, and woundedness makes all the difference between someone who treasures Christ as supreme and satisfying and one who is her own god, who lives with a sense of entitlement and worships comfort. If you are seeking a romantic relationship, be wise and keep things with a prospective partner in the βfriend zoneβ until you have seen how he handles the stress of a broken and fallen world.
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Matt Chandler (The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption)