Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel’s chest like an ache. He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.”

— Lisa Kleypas

452. “But it’s a fact of life that dreadful people usually end up getting far better than they deserve.”

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453. “A woman could do that to you – reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.”

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454. “Sometimes I’m not nice for a reason. It’s a way to find out what someone’s made of.”

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455. “You don’t have to apologize for disliking me, only for being discourteous.”

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456. “Nonconformity is nothing but self-interest in disguise.”

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457. “I’m going to kiss you as long and as often as I like, and you’re not to utter a word of protest.”

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458. “Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn’t feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.”

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459. “I think I’m in love with her. Either that, or I have a stomach disease with a side effect of uncontrollable sweating.”

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460. “Every time I see you,” he murmured, “I think you couldn’t possibly become any more beautiful – and you always prove me wrong.”

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461. “Beatrix had met Christopher Phelan on two occasions, the first at a local dance, where she had judged him to be the most arrogant man in Hampshire. The next time she had met him was at a picnic, where she had revised her opinion: he was the most arrogant man in the entire world.”

— Lisa Kleypas

462. “From the very first time she’d been able to find the chinks in his armor.”

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463. “I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.”

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464. “The Blue Vanda hadn’t sickened in Winterborne’s care... it had thrived.”

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465. “Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.”

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466. “The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.”

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467. “I’m twenty-one,” she said indignantly. “Really?” “Yes, why do you sound skeptical?” “I wouldn’t have expected to find a woman of your age in such a predicament.” “I’m almost always in a predicament.” Pandora jerked as she felt a gentle pressure on her back. “Hold.”

— Lisa Kleypas

468. “What is he doing here?” Zachary asked beneath his breath. Holly reached for his tense arm and held it lightly. “It’s a very great favor,” she whispered back. “By attending our wedding, Lord Blake is publicly showing his support of our marriage.” “More likely taking his last opportunity to ogle you.”

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469. “His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. “Why can’t you see yourself as I see you?” -Jack to Amanda.”

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470. “I do appreciate, Ernestine, that your first instinct is not to prevent me from doing something scandalous, but to help me get away with it.”

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471. “Aline,” he whispered, mercilessly divesting himself of all pride, “I’m afraid of what I’ll become if you won’t have me.”

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472. “Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand.”

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473. “Dad,” I said hesitantly, “I wish you could be there for me even when I’m doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I’m screwing up.”

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474. “I overwhelm even myself.”

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475. “I’m sorry to say, Marcus, that each of your recent choice of companions – the last four or five, at least – displayed all the intelligence of a turnip.”

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476. “In a few minutes, West had pinned Phoebe against a corner wall of the winter garden, in a sheltered space of stone and feathery leaves. He possessed her with passion-roughened kisses, almost eating at her mouth, greedily drawing in the honeysuckle taste of her. Her skin was milk-white with golden flecks, smoothness quivering at the stroke of his tongue.”

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477. “Closing his eyes, he turned his face from hers, only to find himself nuzzling hungrily at her throat. She pushed at him a little, her sharp whisper at his ear. “What is the matter with you?” Marcus shook his head helplessly. “I’m sorry,” he rasped, even as he knew what he was about to do. “My God. Sorry – ” His mouth clamped over hers, and he began to kiss her as if his life depended on it.”

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

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479. “You have to keep taking chances on the wrong people till you find the right one.”

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480. “Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?”

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481. “I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.”

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482. “Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.”

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483. “He was charmed out of all reason as he watched her, this sandy, disheveled, storytelling mermaid, who seemed already to belong to him and yet wanted nothing to do with him. His heart worked in strange rhythms, as if it were struggling to adjust to a brand new metronome. What was happening to him?”

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484. “In his life, he’d had more than his share of lectures, some brutal enough to leave permanent gouges in his soul. But no man had ever spoken to him quite like this- wry, honest, direct, bracing, and a bit high-handed in a way that felt oddly reassuring. Fatherly.”

— Lisa Kleypas

485. “You are my idea of perfection, Beatrix Heloise.”

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486. “Because you need me,” he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. “Just as I need you.” He crushed his mouth to hers. “I’ve needed you for years.” Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately.”

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

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488. “How did he break the chair? Does he have a foul temper? Did he throw it?” “He broke it by sitting on it,” Lillian said with a scowl. “Cousin Eustace is rather l-large boned,” Evie admitted.”

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489. “Don’t tell anyone I was crying, or I shall be very cross with you.” “No, monisha,” he had soothed, cuddling her closer as she sniffled. “All your secrets are safe with me. You know that.”

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490. “I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.”

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491. “You wouldn’t have left had it been me on the foundry floor – ” “I knew you were going to say that,” he said in savage disgust. “Of course I wouldn’t have left you. I’m the man. A man is supposed to protect his wife.”

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492. “Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.”

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493. “If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing.”

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494. “And although I appreciated their kindness more than they would ever know, it’s a fact that friends last longer the less you use them.”

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495. “I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation.”

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496. “She was so endearing, so indomitable, that Gabriel was wrenched with a feeling he’d never known before, as if all the extremes of joy and despair had been compressed into some new emotion that threatened to crack the walls of his heart.”

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497. “West lounged on the floor between her two sons, a heavy forelock of dark hair falling over his forehead. “What does a chicken say?” he asked Stephen, holding up a wooden figure. The toddler took it from him and answered, “Rowwr!” West blinked in surprise and began to chuckle along with Justin. “By God, that is a fierce chicken.”

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498. “I’m going to your mother, y’see... she’s got ’em to leave a back door open... so I can steal into ’eaven.”

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499. “Love is not born of coarseness,” Phoebe said quietly. “The ability to love is the noblest quality a man can possess.”

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500. “I would have fought, Zachary thought, sternly locking the words inside himself. I would have gone toe to toe with the devil himself to stay with you and Rose. I would go down howling and kicking before I let go of what I had.”

— Lisa Kleypas