“Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.”

—  Lisa Kleypas

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

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American writer 1964

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