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He Ordered Food With A Childlike Glee And Watched Me Eat, Tasting It As I Did. In Private He'd Roll On His Back Like A Cat, Hands Pressed To His Mouth As If Trying To Drain Every Taste. It Was The Only Thing He Did That Was Cute. He Was Gorgeous, Sensual, But Rarely Cute. - Anita Blake About Jean-claude

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He Ordered Food With A Childlike Glee And Watched Me Eat, Tasting It As I Did. In Private He'd Roll On His Back Like A Cat, Hands Pressed To His Mouth As If Trying To Drain Every Taste. It Was The Only Thing He Did That Was Cute. He Was Gorgeous, Sensual, But Rarely Cute. - Anita Blake About Jean-claude

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You Either Mellow At 30, Or Your Head Explodes - Take Your Choice.

One Of The Many Reasons That Padma Will Always Be A Secondary Power On The Council Is His Belief That All Power Must Be Taken, That All Power Must Come Through Fear. True Power Comes When Others Offer It To You And You Merely Accept It As A Gift, Not As The Spoils Of Some Personal War.

I Knew From The Moment I Heard You, The Moment I Saw The Gun And Realized That This Lovely, Petit Woman Was The Executioner, That You Would Never Die Waiting For Me To Save You - That You Would Save Yourself.

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