Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Revenge,′ he said softly, ’is the act of a despicable and petty character. Which is no doubt why I’ve always enjoyed it so much.”

— Lisa Kleypas

52. “He’s a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn’t finished sinning yet, and he’d let me know when he was.”

— Lisa Kleypas

53. “I think at this point, safety isn’t a feeling, it’s a process. Starting with trust.”

— Lisa Kleypas

54. “Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.”

— Lisa Kleypas

55. “Life is far kinder to shallow people.”

— Lisa Kleypas

56. “I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.”

— Lisa Kleypas

57. “She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.”

— Lisa Kleypas

58. “If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.”

— Lisa Kleypas

59. “Every night for the rest of my life, I’ll dream of the afternoon in the holloway, when I was waylaid by a dark-haired beauty who devastated me with the heat of a thousand troubled stars, and left my soul in cinders. Even when I’m an old man, and my brain has fallen to wrack and ruin, I’ll remember the sweet fire of your lips under mine, and I’ll say to myself, ‘Now, that was a kiss.’” Silver-tongued.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

61. “Never try to turn back on a new road- you don’t know what adventures await you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

62. “Some folks are happier not being saved.”

— Lisa Kleypas

63. “No, he keeps the schedule of a cat. Long hours of slumber interrupted by brief periods of self-grooming.”

— Lisa Kleypas

64. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

65. “There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn’t done... the paths you hadn’t taken, the things you hadn’t experienced.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

67. “She was the most provoking, beguiling woman he had ever met. Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.”

— Lisa Kleypas

68. “I’d do almost anything for you. I think I’d kill for you. But I’m not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. – Gage Travis.”

— Lisa Kleypas

69. “A man’s vanity is more fragile that you might think. It’s easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”

— Lisa Kleypas

70. “I didn’t expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it’s something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.”

— Lisa Kleypas

71. “Many times in life I’ve regretted the things I’ve said without thinking. But I’ve never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”

— Lisa Kleypas

72. “For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

— Lisa Kleypas

73. “I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

74. “Darling, let me leave you with a thought: There’s very little in life that doesn’t require a compromise of one kind or another. No matter what you choose, it won’t be perfect.” “So much for happy-ever-after,” Pandora said sourly. Kathleen smiled. “But wouldn’t it be dull if ever-after was always happy, with no difficulties or problems to solve? Ever-after is far more interesting than that.”

— Lisa Kleypas

75. “She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.”

— Lisa Kleypas

76. “As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I’d never thought of going.”

— Lisa Kleypas

77. “As Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occurred to him that he might have tried to abduct the wrong heiress last week at Stony Cross Park.”

— Lisa Kleypas

78. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

79. “Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

80. “I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

81. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

82. “Don’t you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!”

— Lisa Kleypas

83. “A sixty – eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won’t return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.”

— Lisa Kleypas

84. “He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack’s view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you’d have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you’d be putting the preacher out of business.”

— Lisa Kleypas

85. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

86. “In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it’s possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.”

— Lisa Kleypas

87. “Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.”

— Lisa Kleypas

88. “I’d rather be insane with you than sane without you. – Jake to Lydia.”

— Lisa Kleypas

89. “Romany Gypsies – the Rom, they call themselves – are a nomadic people. They dislike staying under one roof too long. It makes them feel imprisoned.”

— Lisa Kleypas

90. “When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you’ve already forgiven her for things she hasn’t even done yet.”

— Lisa Kleypas

91. “Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don’t think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won’t be wiped out by something you can’t control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

92. “There is no peace in poverty.”

— Lisa Kleypas

93. “If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

94. “Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.”

— Lisa Kleypas

95. “You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.”

— Lisa Kleypas

96. “Falling hard and fast. And there didn’t seem to be a thing I could do about it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

97. “The village of Gretna Green lay in the county of Dumfriesshire, just north of the border between England and Scotland. In defiance of the strict marriage laws of England, hundreds of couples had traveled the coaching road from London, through Carlisle, to Gretna Green. They came on foot, by carriage or horseback, seeking an asylum, where they could say their marriage vows and return to England as man and wife.”

— Lisa Kleypas

98. “The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn’t a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.”

— Lisa Kleypas

99. “I don’t share my body heat indiscriminately.”

— Lisa Kleypas

100. “I’m scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I’m just trying to figure out what the mistake is.”

— Lisa Kleypas