Top 48 Guhrke Laura Quotes
#2. I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind.
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#3. Marry me and make an honest man of me in my butler's
eyes." He kissed her. "Marry me and save me from having to chase loose women for the rest of my life."
He kissed her again. "Marry me, darling," he said once more against her lips. "Because I adore you.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#4. How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?"
For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime."
I can live with that," he said, and kissed her.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#5. She met his gaze over the plums. The point is, we all care, to some degree, what others think of us.
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#6. It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.
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#7. Olivia watched him through a blur of tears, despising the futility of it. For there was nothing she could say to comfort a man whose family was long dead; there was no balm to heal wounds that scored a man's soul; and there was no way to make a man believe in the ties that bind.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#8. Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.
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#9. Came to her, not the athletic, graceful leopard of the ballroom at Hanford House but her very own wounded animal. Her husband. Her lover. Her best friend.
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#10. Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.
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#12. The point is, all my life I've hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.
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#13. No one judging her by her appearance would dream that Miss Daphne Wade had a rather salacious habit of staring at her employer's naked chest whenever she had the chance, although most women would have agreed that Anthony Courtland, Duke of Tremore, had a chest worth looking at.
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#14. You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.
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#15. Even out of bad things, good things can happen. Even things that are sordid or painful can lead to things that are beautiful.
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#17. No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she could receive.
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#18. I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.
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#19. As far back as I can remember, whenever you used to look at me, your face would light up as if someone had lit a candle inside you.
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#20. There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.
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#21. Life is like a picture, you know. It's all in the way you frame it.
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#22. ..the greatest unhappiness a person can feel in life is unmet expectations.
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#23. Lizzie Darbury won't do," Vivian said. "She never understands Harry's jokes. She just stares at him as if he's a bit touched in the head and doesn't laugh." "And that's important," Louisa said. "Men do hate it when we don't find them amusing. Especially Harry. It quite upsets him.
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#24. Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward?
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#25. I suppose you have already informed God that you will require at least three sons to ensure the Tremore line?
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#26. You're killing me," he told her, panting, his palms sliding down over her ribs to explore the rest of her
shape - her waist, her hips, her thighs. "Killing me by inches." He lifted his body from hers enough to
yank up her skirt. "But it's a damn fine way for a man to die.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#27. Pardon me for not being willing to commit my entire future to you based on two kisses and a blueberry muffin.
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#28. He's the sort of man who wants power. He doesn't have it, but he thinks he's entitled to it by birthright. He's incapable of earning what he wants, so he wants what he hasn't earned. The sort of man who, if he wants something, thinks it's all right to take it.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#29. I never understood until this happened to me was that if one's always going to new places, one never stops long enough to see the beauty in the old places.
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#30. He could feel the only woman he had ever wanted slipping away for the third time, and he knew that this time, the pain of losing her would annihilate her.
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#31. Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.
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#32. The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.
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#33. Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.
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#34. If I'm to be damned, I'll be damned as a lion, not as a lamb.
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#35. Oh, that anything could feel like this. It was wicked and wanton.
It was wonderful. That Philip, whom she always thought so proper, should know of such things as this. It amazed her.
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#37. He walked to Brooks's, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But
even at his club, surrounded by all the trappings of the honorable British gentleman, he still longed for the
forbidden fruit; he still hungered for the hot, sweet kisses of an Italian girl.
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#38. Viola was just as passionate in her rage as she was in her desire, just as stubborn in hate as she had been in love.
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#39. The human heart must be a strong and resilient thing, Daphne decided when she awoke the following morning. She was surprised to find that she was no longer in the throes of wrenching heartbreak and pain. Instead, in a strange way, she felt as if she had been reborn.
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#40. She was like a wounded animal, he thought, looking at her. Fear and pain were in every line of her - in the taut stillness of her form and in her watchful, wary stare. She wanted to be alone, to lick her wounds, and though she'd been that way all along, he couldn't let her stay that way.
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#41. Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a man straight to hell.
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#42. Fading into the wallpaper was so much safer than being noticed.
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#43. Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go.
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#44. I shouldn't wish to be a tease. To ... lead you on."
He smiled. "That's my look-out, not yours."
She considered that, doubtfully. "There are some men who would disagree."
His smile vanished. "Then they are worthless curs, not men.
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#45. This was why I did what I
did," she whispered. "I looked at those men at the ball, and I thought of that night in the carriage when
you touched me, and I knew I could never let any of them touch me." She tilted her head back and
closed her eyes, pressing his hands to her breasts. "Only you.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#46. He turned out the lamp and left the room, his body in agony. Sometimes, it was absolute hell to be a
gentleman.
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#47. One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.
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#48. If you're not gratified, you should be," he told her as he tucked the letter back in the breast pocket of his jacket. "All the other members of my staff were running around like panicked rabbits without you."
"But not you, I am sure."
"I was too astonished to panic.
Laura Lee Guhrke
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