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Lisa Kleypas is a best-selling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts 1985 and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant in Atlantic City. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. November 1964

Works

Dreaming of You
Dreaming of You
Lisa Kleypas
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
Lisa Kleypas: 214 quotes8 likes

Famous Lisa Kleypas Quotes

“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“Some people there's no getting over.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Then Came You

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

Lisa Kleypas Quotes about love

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Mine Till Midnight

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

Lisa Kleypas Quotes about 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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Mine Till Midnight

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

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

Lisa Kleypas: Trending quotes

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

Lisa Kleypas Quotes

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Again the Magic

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: It Happened One Autumn

“It’s impossible,” he snapped.

“Why?”

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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?”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

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

-Ella Varner”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

“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”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

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

~ Hardy Cates”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Again the Magic

“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”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

“… 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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Mine Till Midnight

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Mine Till Midnight

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

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

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

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

- Jake to Lydia”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Where's My Hero?

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“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..”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

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