Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It’s fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone’s love, not to lose it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

102. “Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

105. “Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

107. “I don’t want you to change your life for me. You’ll have to make the same decision every day, over and over – it must be for yourself alone. Otherwise you will come to resent me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

108. “I realized I wasn’t going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.”

— Lisa Kleypas

109. “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

110. “A man is not entitled to be called a father merely because he once had a well-timed spasm of the loins.”

— Lisa Kleypas

111. “In all my longing for a family and a home, I’d never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But this house looks and feels so right, so perfect, it seems impossible any other place would suit me half so well.”

— Lisa Kleypas

112. “The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”

— Lisa Kleypas

113. “If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they’re not really calling the shots.”

— Lisa Kleypas

114. “Damn it. I don’t know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

116. “Haven, don’t ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.”

— Lisa Kleypas

117. “Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.”

— Lisa Kleypas

118. “Please come to me, Cat, because there’s no surviving you. You don’t have to love me back. You don’t have to be mine. Just let me be yours.”

— Lisa Kleypas

119. “She was everything he’d ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.”

— Lisa Kleypas

120. “Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.”

— Lisa Kleypas

121. “When you meet the right man, the list of things you would never do suddenly becomes much shorter.”

— Lisa Kleypas

122. “Before they crossed the bridge, they went down to have a look at the chalk stream, which was fringed with reeds, watercress, and yellow flag irises. The water flowing gently over the pebbled bed was gin clear, having been filtered through the Hampshire chalk hills.”

— Lisa Kleypas

123. “But sometimes normal just isn’t happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.”

— Lisa Kleypas

124. “He wasn’t mine anywhere except in my heart.”

— Lisa Kleypas

125. “Girlfriend, if you’re waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you’re not going to make it to the party.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

127. “I’m one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can’t go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.”

— Lisa Kleypas

128. “N’essaye de rebrousser chemin sur ube route nouvelle, tu ne sais pas quelles aventures t’attendent.”

— Lisa Kleypas

129. “A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.”

— Lisa Kleypas

130. “She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she’d ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy.”

— Lisa Kleypas

131. “His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.”

— Lisa Kleypas

132. “I’ve never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn’t know what to do with it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

133. “Sometimes when we’re not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.”

— Lisa Kleypas

134. “Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.”

— Lisa Kleypas

135. “True friends never mind holding your hair back while you cast up your crumpets.”

— Lisa Kleypas

136. “I love you. I don’t give a damn if your father is the devil himself. I’d let you stab a knife in my heart if it pleased you, and I’d lie there loving you until my last breath.”-Rhys Winterborne’s to Helen Ravenel.”

— Lisa Kleypas

137. “Sukey’s approving glance swept over Amanda’s black evening dress, made of shimmering crinkled silk that had been cut very low across the bosom and fitted tightly to her voluptuous shape. Rows of glittering jet beads adorned the bodice and long sleeves, while her gloves and shoes were of soft chamois leather. It was a sophisticated ensemble, one that made the most of Amanda’s looks and generously displayed her bosom.”

— Lisa Kleypas

138. “The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior.”

— Lisa Kleypas

139. “I’m from North Wales, where we express ourselves by throwing rocks at trees.”

— Lisa Kleypas

140. “Let her cover the mark as she will,‘” he quoted sardonically, “’the pang of it will always be in her heart.”

— Lisa Kleypas

141. “Gabriel’s voice was like dark velvet against her ear. “I, for one, have been exceptionally productive.” “I meant something useful.” “You have been useful.” His palm smoothed over her naked hip. “Doing what?” “Satisfying my needs.” “Not very well, it seems, or I wouldn’t have to keep doing it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

142. “One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one’s own sanity.”

— Lisa Kleypas

143. “The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn’t the end of the story it’s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

144. “I’m a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

146. “Sometimes you think you love someone,” I said, “but it’s really just that they’ve become a habit.”

— Lisa Kleypas

147. “I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you’ll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.”

— Lisa Kleypas

148. “Most of the time when couples argue, it’s not really about the thing they’re fighting about; there’s a deeper reason why they’re arguing.”

— Lisa Kleypas

149. “You may put a man in a cravat, teach him manners, and make him attend a soiree, but hardly any of us are truly civilized.”

— Lisa Kleypas

150. “There’s nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.”

— Lisa Kleypas