Lisa Kleypas citations

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“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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…”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My love is upon you.”

“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.”

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

“… 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”