Lisa Kleypas Quotes

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

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

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.

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

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.

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

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.

One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?” “They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

You sweet…beautiful…lunatic,” he heard himself mutter.

I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.

We may run into Kevin,” Lucy said gloomily. “She’s hoping to run into Kevin,” Zoë assured her. Justine smiled grimly. “Preferably with my car.

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

Darlin'...I know what you look like when you've been kissed.

You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores.

I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.

You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Friends are the support bras of life.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

The bargain…” she mumbled. “You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. “But, my love…you didn’t specify where.

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.