Lisa Kleypas: Likeness

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Darlin'… I know what you look like when you've been kissed.”

“I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.”

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

“Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts."

~Leo to Merripen”

“A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”

“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”

“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”

“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.”

“… 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.”