I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation
Lisa KleypasGetting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
Lisa KleypasShe had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, lonelinessโฆ but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.
Lisa KleypasHe was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.
Lisa Kleypas