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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
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Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"

"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"

"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Where Dreams Begin

“Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone----the pleasure is in the exchange."

-Liberty Jones”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is thereemergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?'
'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Scandal in Spring

“Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you."
Leo”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

“I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Again the Magic

“Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“cruel to? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

“I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since…”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“Without a doubt… the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Rainshadow Road

“Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you
to know everything but I don't want to have
to tell you. Because there are some things I
don't want to say out loud.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: It Happened One Autumn

“My love is upon you.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them… not as if they had met before… but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“… 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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

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

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

“I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

“Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Married By Morning

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear.
He had said the sky should always be blue for her.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

“I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I realized the problem: no one I knew would have come up with that day for me., I thought,.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Again the Magic

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

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

“I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Devil in Winter

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his.

"How much?" He made a slight sound, as if the soft kiss had affected him intensely.

"Without limit. Beyond forever.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

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

-Ella”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“We are hidiously rich Annabelle-- and I've got three older brothers, all unmarried. Would you consider one of them? If you like, I'll have one shipped across the Atlantic for your inspection." -Lillian Bowman”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Sugar Daddy

“I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas

Source: Where Dreams Begin