Lisa Kleypas citations

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“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”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”