Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

—Maya Banks in No Place to Run

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About Maya Banks

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Maya Banks is an American bestselling author of erotic romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, and Scottish historical romance novels.

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Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It’s not fair but then much of life isn’t fair. It’s how you live that matters. It’s how you deal with the bumps in the road.

—Maya Banks in Echoes at Dawn

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You’re scared of the way I make you feel because you don’t want to feel anything.

—Maya Banks in Sweet Temptation

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The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life

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Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

—Paulo Coelho

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The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.… Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

—Larry Dossey

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Everyone should get to experience a love like that. That kind of love that makes us better people.

—R.K. Lilley in Grounded

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