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You love me.” He kept gazing upward, his answer coming softly. “Yeah. I do.Toni Blake
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What can I do?” he asked. “To start taking care of you?Toni Blake
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I know you don’t like to believe you ever need to be taken care of, but I can’t stand the idea of you being sick and alone. I need to be here for you, babe.Toni Blake
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What sort of look are you going for?” Damn, how did he answer this? “Something…normal, ” he finally said.Toni Blake
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To her surprise, Lucky tilted his head and looked her in the eye, appearing oddly…crestfallen, she thought. “Don’t be nervous, ” he said. “I hate making you nervous.Toni Blake
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A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.Elizabeth Langston
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Friend. Before Mark, I’d known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.Elizabeth Langston
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I loved her in ways I understood, full of physical aches and the need to be near her whenever I could. But I also loved her in ways that were unfamiliar, with an intensity that made me willing to attempt the impossible.Elizabeth Langston
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I knew a sudden shyness. There was a look on his face, a stillness to his body that had never been there before. Though I couldn’t give the emotion a name, I felt it, too. We had something special. Something hard to define. Something past friendship.“ I must go now, ” I said and rose up on tiptoe to kiss his cheek, marveling at its velvet skin. “Thank you for the book.” He drew me into his embrace and sighed. “Thank you for the stars.Elizabeth Langston