Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

There isn’t going to be a ‘next lover,’” Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. “I’m the only man she’s going to have.

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

Getting 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.

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer.

Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan

You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster. "With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.

It's a strange life, isn't it? ...A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo... home is a family.

I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.

Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.

Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.

Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.

It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.

Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.

Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.