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She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.
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Nicole Lyons
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I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.
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Nicole Lyons (Hush)
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She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.
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Nicole Lyons
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Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.
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AndrΓ© Breton (Nadja)
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Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits."
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-
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Lora Leigh (Tanner's Scheme (Breeds, #8))
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This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me.
- Tristan Carruthers -
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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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All that I know is that Claire Lyons should consider herself done, done and you know what else?
DONE!
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Lisi Harrison
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I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.
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Nicole Lyons
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I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.
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Nicole Lyons (Hush)
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There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.
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Missy Lyons (Cowboys Don't Sing (Riding Western Style, #3))
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She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.
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Nicole Lyons
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She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.
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Nicole Lyons (Hush)
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Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another.
βSir, which one is Princess Christina?β Andrew asked Lyon, just as Rhone started in choking on his laughter. Rhone has obviously been watching Christina, too.
βSir?β
βThe blond-headed one,β Lyon muttered, shaking his head. He watched in growing disbelief as Christina daintily popped another leaf into her mouth.
βWhich blond-headed one?β Andrew persisted.
βThe one eating the shrubs.
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Julie Garwood (The Lion's Lady (Crown's Spies, #1))
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Boy trouble, huh?"
"Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this."
"Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's voice.
"Do Lucas," Kylie said.
Holiday made a funny face and raised one eyebrow.
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C.C. Hunter (Whispers at Moonrise (Shadow Falls, #4))
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The glory of God is the human person fully alive.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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William Lyon Phelps
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The stupid vamp just asked me to marry him. Here, now? As if looking like I just died is how I wanted to be proposed to."
Joy did a lap around Kylie's heart. "And you said?"
Holiday took a sip of water. "I asked him if we couldn't just live together in sin."
"And?"
"He told me it wouldn't be a good example to our students. So...I agreed to marry him." She pushed a hand against her forehead. "Dear God, what am I getting myself into?
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C.C. Hunter (Whispers at Moonrise (Shadow Falls, #4))
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Take some very deep breaths," Miranda said. "Relax. Concentrate. Then envision a frosty six-pack and wiggle your pinky."
A frosty six-pack. Kylie inhaled. He held out her pinky, and right then Della chimed in. "We are talking a six=pack of soda, not a cold guy with good-looking abs, right?"
There was a strange kind of sizzle in the air. And suddenly appearing in front of the refrigerator was a shirtless, shivering guy with great abs. His blue eyes studied the three of them in complete bafflement.
"What the...!" he muttered.
Kylie gasped.
Miranda giggled.
Della snorted with laughter.
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C.C. Hunter (Whispers at Moonrise (Shadow Falls, #4))
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The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
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William Lyon Phelps
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
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Marie Beynon Ray
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I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.
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Nicole Lyons
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Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.
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Nicole Lyons
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We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
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Marie Beynon Ray
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I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole.
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Nicole Lyons
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Could she learn to like this guy?
"βIt's nice to meet you." Kylie plastered a warm expression on her face. But she worried he could tell it was a sham.
"The pleasure is all mine," he said.
Kylie just smiled. He was completely right about that.
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C.C. Hunter (Whispers at Moonrise (Shadow Falls, #4))
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This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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William Lyon Phelps
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I run. I kick. I punch. I listen. I write. I give.
I live.
Stars above, I live.
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Heather Lyons (The Deep End of the Sea)
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each time it would hurt less, and afterward she would love Lyon less, until one day there would be nothing leftΒ β no hurt, and no love. She
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Jacqueline Susann (Valley of the Dolls)
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Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.
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Kay Lyons Stockham
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Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
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The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
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William Lyon Phelps
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Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.
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Darcy- "What's worse then a pissed of Chuck Norris?"
Pheonix- "What?"
Darcy- "A pissed off witch.
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Jennifer Lyon (Blood Magic (Wing Slayer Hunters, #1))
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She pushed a dagger into my hands. "And now you are a man with a knife. Woe to the Empire.
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Jenn Lyons (The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1))
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In paginis mundus invenimus. In verbis vitam inveniimus. In pages, we find words. In words, we find life.
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Heather Lyons (The Collectorsβ Society (The Collectorsβ Society, #1))
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Sometimes the things that protect us are the same things that limit our freedoms.
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Jenn Lyons (The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1))
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Love isn't always clean and pretty--sometimes it's messy, cruel, and confusing. And sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But then, the beauty of love is that it's very strong, and when it's real, it's worth it.
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Heather Lyons (A Matter of Fate (Fate, #1))
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It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it
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Andrew Lyon
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He stood up. "Let's go." The sun spilling through the window hit his chest, making his bare skin look even more golden.
"That's okay," she sputtered. "You don't have to...tag along."
"Yes, I do. I'm your shadow until after breakfast."
Oh great. Her gaze slipped down to his open shirt again. Was she going to have to look, or try not to look, at his chest all morning? "Then at least button your shirt." The words were out before she realised how that sounded.
The disappointment in his eyes vanished and a sexy twinkle took its place. The twinkle brought out the gold flecks in his irises, which she used to admire so much.
"Why?" he asked. "Does it bother you?"
She glared at him. "Don't go there.
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C.C. Hunter (Whispers at Moonrise (Shadow Falls, #4))
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I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.
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George Ella Lyon (Holding on to Zoe)
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Saskia groaned again. She threw back her bed covers, the last vestiges of sleep leaving her. It would be evening in Lyon. Clarissa would be expecting to hear from her. A call-in at least once every 24 hours was part of several protocols Clarissa had established. The instruction at the end of the conversation, βGive the dogs a pat for meβ, reassured Clarissa that all was well. Leave the words out, replace any one of the words in the sentence with another or not place a call in a 24-hour period, and Clarissa would alert authorities. In her younger years, Clarissa had served in the British army. Her experiences in those years had caused the trauma she now lived with, though she used her expertise by teaching her three partners basic self-defence, how to operate firearms and how to wield weapons. She also programmed their watches and phones to enable her to constantly track their whereabouts, explaining, βI want to know that my three charges are safeβ.
Another protocol was to always check accommodation venues for listening devices. Saskia did this before calling Clarissa.
βClarissa. Γa va?β
βWhat have you to report?
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Miriam Verbeek (The Forest: An idylic Australian setting harbouring a criminal secret (Saskia van Essen crime thrillers))
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They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild.
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Nicole Lyons
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I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.
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Nicole Lyons
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Eudora stands back and appraises whatβs left of her life. It doesnβt look like much, but then what are humans when it comes down to it? We arrive with nothing, accumulate far too much, and leave with nothing.
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Annie Lyons (The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett)
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Introverts aren't unfriendly, they just don't give a damn whether or not you like them.
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Jim Lyon
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God has three answers to our prayers:
1. Yes
2. Not yet
3. I have something better in mind
anonymous
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Lori Lyons (Adopting in America: The Diary of a Mom in Waiting)
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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
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Dorothy Parker (Constant Reader: 2)
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Just a kiss, Kitten.β
βKitten?β No one called her that.
His mouth curved. βYouβre skittish, wanting my touch, but afraid. Deciding if you want to claw me or purr for me. Like a kitten.β
She lifted an eyebrow. βWhat if I claw you?β
βBring it, baby. That
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Jennifer Lyon (The Proposition (The Plus One Chronicles, #1))
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..."Hence," goes on the professor, "definitions of happiness are interesting." I suppose the best thing to do with that is to let is pass. Me, I never saw a definition of happiness that could detain me after train-time, but that may be a matter of lack of opportunity, of inattention, or of congenital rough luck. If definitions of happiness can keep Professor Phelps on his toes, that is little short of dandy. We might just as well get on along to the next statement, which goes like this: "One of the best" (we are still on definitions of happiness) "was given in my Senior year at college by Professor Timothy Dwight: 'The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.'" Promptly one starts recalling such Happiness Boys as Nietzche, Socrates, de Maupassant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, and Poe."
-Review of the book, Happiness, by (Professor) William Lyon Phelps. Review title: The Professor Goes in for Sweetness and Light; November 5, 1927
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Answer me, Kat. Did you see him in Lyon?" "Yes. For a second. It was--" "Why didn't you tell me?" Hale moved toward her, and she was glad for the dark. "Everything was happening so fast and... it was just for a second!" There was an anger in Hale's eyes, but something more than that. A hurt went deepr than Kat had ever seen. "You should've told me." Nick laughed. "I don't think she reports to you." "You really don't get it, new guy." Hale shook his head and stepped away. "She doesn't report to anyone." When Hale turned and started for the opposite side of the deck, Kat was the only one who followed. "I kissed you!" Kat hadn't meant to yell it, but she wasn't exactly sorry she did. The words had been there, throbbing like a pulse for weeks. She felt lighter without them--one more thing she didn't have to carry. "In New York--in the limo-- I kissed you." Hale stopped. "I remember." "I kissed you and you left. So either I am not someone you want to be kissing..." "No." He shook his head slowly. "That's not it." "Or I am a really bad kisser." Kat couldn't stop herself from going through the reasons--through the options--like it was just another con and she could master it if only her mind would stop spinning. "Kat--" He reached for her, but her reflexes were too strong. She pulled away and looked at him. "I kissed you and you left.
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Ally Carter (Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society, #2))