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The quote suggests that getting what you want is not always a happy moment if it arrives at the wrong time. It reflects how timing can make a desired outcome feel painful or complicated instead of satisfying.
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Source
The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy (2015)
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The phrase appears in the book "The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy (2015)" by Lisa Kleypas (Google Books snippet); no earlier source was checked.
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About Lisa Kleypas
American author of historical and contemporary romance novels
Lisa Kleypas is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. She is known for writing in both of those romance genres, and for her work as a novelist. Before turning to fiction full time, she was named Miss Massachusetts 1985 and went on to compete in the Miss America 1986 pageant in Atlantic City. Her public profile comes from both pageantry and her later career as a romance writer.
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Books by Lisa Kleypas
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2010
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2007
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