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I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.Maya Banks
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Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - FaithMaya Banks
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When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?Maya Banks
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It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.Maya Banks
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She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the same time she registered wetness against her skin. Tears. His tears. She started to turn around, but he tightened his grip.“ Stay, ” he said in a choked voice. “Just let me hold you, baby. Just let me hold you.Maya Banks
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I know this woman.”“ Who the hell is she?” He stared both his brothers down. “She’s mine.Maya Banks
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Never be afraid to tell me anything, ” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.Maya Banks
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I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He’ll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me,Maya Banks
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Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that, ” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.”“ You’re not?Maya Banks
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Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing.“ Ah baby.Maya Banks
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I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.Maya Banks
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It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.Maya Banks
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Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.Maya Banks
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... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.Maya Banks
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Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.Maya Banks
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As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.Maya Banks
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Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader.Maya Banks
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No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.Maya Banks
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If it helps you. I forgive you. But i have learned in recent weekd that seeking forgiveness from others is meaningless unless you can forgive yourself.Maya Banks
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Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.Maya Banks
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Why do you even want to be involved with me?" she asked. "I'm a complete mess. I don't have my head on straight. I'm a master at fucking up everything that's good in my life."" But you're my mess." Cole said quietly. "I don't need you to be perfect. I just need you to be you because that's who I care about.Maya Banks
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You don't understand. How could you? We were in the worst sort of hell. We weren't living day to day or even hour to hour. We survived minute by excruciating minute. The next day was an eternity away and we didn't want it. Death wasn't the enemy. It was our salvation.Maya Banks
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Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"" Plenty of time, " he said softly." Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"" Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.Maya Banks
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I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.Maya Banks
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His words put an ache in her heart. She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after.Maya Banks
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Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?Maya Banks
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Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?”“ Well I would if you’d let me finish, ” he grumbled.Maya Banks
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And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.Maya Banks
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If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.Maya Banks
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My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.Maya Banks
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They began collecting dishes and clearing the table while Swanny sat and watched them in confusion. “Now wait a minute. I was forbidden to help and was ordered to maintain my station, but you guys are all helping.”“ I don’t much believe there’s such a thing as woman’s work, ” Frank said. “I’ve always brought my boys up to help out whether it’s with the cooking or cleaning. Now, their mother will give orders and usually I’m not one to teach my children to disobey their mother, but there are times, and this is one of them, when you just don’t listen to her.” Amusement flared in Swanny’s eyes. “Ah, okay. I think I get it now. I should get my ass up and help no matter what she told me.” Frank nodded and handed him a stack of dishes. “Exactly.Maya Banks
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The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.Maya Banks
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One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.Maya Banks
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I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New MexicoMaya Banks
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He walked hesitantly toward her and then wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug.“ You just looked like you needed one, ” he said.Maya Banks
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There was a multitude of sexual scenarios, from asimple one-on-one couple fucking like bunnies to anoutright orgy with no less than eight people joined like L E G Os.Maya Banks
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When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.Maya Banks
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I resented you for inserting yourself so fully into my life, and then one day I realized I couldn't imagine my life without you...Maya Banks
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Trying to drown me woman?"' You can't drown a SEAL, ' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?'' God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.Maya Banks
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Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worrybecause she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good. I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't bethe same girl if she did.Maya Banks
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Wasn't that the way of the world, though? Only the strong survived, and the weak perished.Maya Banks