Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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

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.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.

Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.

Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.

So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.

Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?" "His posture," Hannah muttered. "What about it?" "He slouches." "He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

Be happy, honey. No one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm keeping one little piece of your heart for myself. And if you ever want it back.. .you know where to find it.

Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.

When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

There is no peace in poverty

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella

His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me...the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are." -Grant Morgan

You're so full of it, darlin'.

Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.

I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

A slow smile began on Gideon's face, and his blue eyes sparkled. With a shake of his head, he put his hand on his chest, as if the sight of her was more than his heart could bear.

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.