Roberta Pearce Quotes

#1. Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom - I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.

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#2. When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I'd picked up a book of my Gram's, a dog-eared romance from the 'sixties about English hospital 'sisters' trying to get it on with the doctors, and thought it very shocking behaviour for nuns.

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#3. I didn't mean to wake you." "'S'okay," I said. "How am I?" "High." He chuckled. It was a nice sound. He removed his warm hand. "I'll be back. I'm going to talk to the doctor." "'K." I floated off again.

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#4. For the record, sports cars have ridiculously small trunks.
I know that for a fact, since I found myself stuffed into one.

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#5. I don't believe that celebrity spokeswomen get their hair colour from a box.

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#6. I missed all the good stuff," I said, looking down at the gardens awash in early-morning light and cops. "Such as the gurney with the body bag?

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#7. What do you know about insurance fraud?
I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.

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#8. Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde:
Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom): "Either it goes, or I do."
Wilding, Adelyn (of the gum splooches on the sidewalk): "Ditto."

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#9. A bride should look chaste - not caught.

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#10. Didn't being out in the storm scare you?"
"Try a couple of high-summer prairie storms in a trailer," she mused. "That either makes you terrified of them or indifferent to them.

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#11. The yellowy things on the tray were probably eggs, but they looked like they came pre-scrambled from alien chickens.

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#12. My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One day, they would find me and take me away from the gypsy caravan that was my life, and give me hot meals, a decent dress, and a pony.

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#13. They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern.
Well, okay ... maybe medieval.

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#14. I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

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#15. Dressed to strip?'
'You know - expensive clothes that feel good in your hands while you take them off him.

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#16. [T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'.

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#17. The only way to tell off an asshole was face-to-face and to look fantastic doing it. So, here she was, with perfect makeup, hair done in a riot of waves that had taken a ridiculously long time to create, and a brand new screw you and the horse you rode in on dress laid out on her bed.

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#18. I don't like being kidnapped. Or manipulated."
"I've done neither, silly. Though I'd like to hear about your other kidnap incidents. The aspects that put you off the experience.

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