Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

Can't you just tell me now?" "No, I need someone to eat with." A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed to believe that I'm your only option?" "No. But you're my favorite option.

Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .

My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.

Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

- No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.

Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn’t belong anywhere?

But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose.

Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

Most of the time when couples argue, it’s not really about the thing they’re fighting about; there’s a deeper reason why they’re arguing.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.

I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love,” the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. “But I don’t think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.

These impossible women! How they do get around us!

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy

... no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life.

... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.

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