You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
Lisa KleypasHe took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. โAmanda, do you trust me?โ โOf course not,โ she said. โI donโt know the first thing about you.โ Laughter rustled from his chest. โSensible woman.
Lisa KleypasWhen you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.
Lisa KleypasI grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.
Lisa KleypasI swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.โ Seeing Poppyโs hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, โIf a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldnโt tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, Iโ
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