Lisa Kleypas Quotes

“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.”

“Some people there's no getting over.”

“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”

“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”

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

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

“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.”

“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

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

“Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.”

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

“And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.”

“There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”

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

“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.”

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

“Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.”

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

“A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”

“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.”

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”

“Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.”

~ Liberty Jones”

“In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.”

“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”

“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.”

“It’s impossible,” he snapped.

“Why?”

“Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.”

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”

“I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.”

“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”

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

-Ella Varner”

“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.”

“I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis”

“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’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.”

“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.”

“You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.”

“I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."

~ Hardy Cates”

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”

“It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to… the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching… and that's just my house. Imagine what it would be like here.”

“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.”

“I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard."

"You'll never find out. You--------"

He kissed me.

~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner”

“… I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”

“Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.”

“Oh, I have a very pure soul. It's only my private parts that have gotten me into trouble".”

“Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.”

“A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.”

“If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.”

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

“… 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.”

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

“Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.”

“I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.”

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

“I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.

- Jake to Lydia”

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

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

“But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.”

“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”

“Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones.

"… Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her."

"Who was it?"

"His own wife."

"Oh, dear.”

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

“Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.”

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

“I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.”

“He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.”

“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.”

“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..”