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“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“When I... was little... I thought... No I knew my family wasn't perfect... But I thought love was.”
― Margaret Stohl, The Life of Captain Marvel

“Are we going to be stupid?” she whispered.
“Define stupid.”
“Anything that involves either one of us exposing our favorite body parts.” Or their hearts…
“I want to hear about your favorite body part,” he said. “In great detail.”
― Jill Shalvis

“He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.”
― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Whisper