Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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2. “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

3. “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

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4. “If you pretend everything’s fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.”

— Lisa Kleypas

5. “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. -Sara.”

— Lisa Kleypas

6. “Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom.”

— Lisa Kleypas

7. “Don’t mistake softness for weakness. Only a strong man can be soft with a woman.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

11. “Make your choice and accept the consequences.”

— Lisa Kleypas

12. “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

13. “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

14. “I’m not here now. This isn’t happening. You’re just visiting a dream of mine.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

16. “I rarely dislike people for things they can’t change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.”

— Lisa Kleypas

25. “Friends are the support bras of life. We don’t let each other down.”

— Lisa Kleypas

26. “My God. I love you so much that I’m drowning in it. I can’t defend against it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

27. “Troubled are they who want the world, troubled are they who have it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

28. “I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.”

— Lisa Kleypas

29. “I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”

— Lisa Kleypas

30. “Kindness counts the most when it’s given to people who don’t deserve it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

31. “Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?”

— Lisa Kleypas

32. “In this life and the next, you’re my only hope at happiness.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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34. “Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can’t seem to make yourself want him. But that’s not nearly as bad as when you meet the wrong guy, and you can’t make yourself not want him.”

— Lisa Kleypas

35. “The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.”

— Lisa Kleypas

36. “You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There’s no place you could go where I wouldn’t love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

37. “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

38. “He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn’t taking my side.”

— Lisa Kleypas

39. “You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.”

— Lisa Kleypas

40. “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

41. “There is no peace in poverty.”

— Lisa Kleypas

42. “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

43. “Dangerous creatures, wallflowers. Approach them with the utmost caution. They sit quietly in corners, appearing abandoned and forlorn, when in truth they’re sirens who lure men to their downfall. You won’t even notice the moment she steals the heart right out of your body – and then it’s hers for good. A wallflower never gives your heart back.”

— Lisa Kleypas

44. “Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don’t ever forget that, Liberty. You can’t take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

45. “Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.”

— Lisa Kleypas

46. “You’re so full of it, darlin’.”

— Lisa Kleypas

47. “Something else is bothering you. Tell me what it is and I’ll fix it.” “You can’t.” “Try me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

48. “Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.”

— Lisa Kleypas

49. “But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.”

— Lisa Kleypas

50. “Women. You’ll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he’s been struck by Cupid’s arrow when in reality, he’s digesting a bad turnip.”

— Lisa Kleypas