Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.”

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154. “I didn’t mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.”

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155. “I want you too badly, love. I want you the way dry earth soaks up rain. There may have been a time in my life when I could have seen you like this and still had some hope of self-control. Although I doubt it. I’ve never seen anything as beautiful as you.”

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156. “Tell me where she is, or I’ll snap your neck like a wishbone!”

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157. “One can’t help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.”

— Lisa Kleypas

158. “I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.”

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159. “I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.”

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160. “You and I both know this doesn’t have a damned thing to do with honor.”

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161. “You’re all mine.” His voice was deep and shaken. “Every hair on your head. Every part of you was made to be loved by me.”

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162. “I feel like I’ve been shut in a closet, and he’s on the other side, and he doesn’t have the key to unlock the door.”

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163. “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

164. “I shouldn’t let you go with Dashiell and Barksby,” he said. “You’ll be the only woman there. I don’t like it.” “Oh, it’s all very circumspect. They’re both gentlemen, and I’m – ” “Spoken for,” he had said curtly. “By me.” Her heart beat a little faster. “Yes, I know,” she admitted without looking at him.”

— Lisa Kleypas

165. “No young woman wants to marry after reading Tolstoy.”

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166. “Kissing is the best thing lips do other than smiling.” Cassandra.”

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167. “Comparing George to Zachary Bronson was like comparing a prince to a pirate. If one spent ten years doing nothing but drilling rules and rituals into Bronson’s head, anyone would still glance at him and immediately proclaim him a scoundrel. Nothing would ever dispel the rascally gleam in his black eyes or the heathen charm of his smile.”

— Lisa Kleypas

168. “For God’s sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”

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169. “The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.”

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170. “The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.”

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171. “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.”

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172. “Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.”

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173. “If the hero hasn’t turned up, you may have to settle for the villain.” “If the villain’s the one who turns up, he is the hero.”

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174. “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.”

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175. “I’ll hold you ‘til the end of time, if that’s all you want from me. But there’s so much more I could do for you. I would treasure you. I would-” He broke off, leaning so close she felt as if she were drowning in the tropical azure and ocean green of his eyes. “Marry me, Cassandra- and we’ll tell them all to go to hell.”

— Lisa Kleypas

176. “Daca-mi dau voie sa te sarut o data, ar urma inca o data, apoi inca una, si curand n-am mai putea sa ne oprim.”

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177. “I would become anyone, anything for you. I would lie, steal, beg, kill for you. I’m not sorry for what I did in the past few months. My life would have been nothing without them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

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179. “There’s nothing more tedious than people who like to talk about themselves.”

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180. “Wh-what rational woman would ever want a husband who looks like you?”

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181. “If my love can hold you, I’ll keep you with me.”

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182. “Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they’ve had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they’re never as good as when they were new.”

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183. “No one ever thinks their own behavior is immoral, only other people’s.”

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184. “He stared at her the way he used to in the days of their youth, his eyes lit with open yearning.”

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185. “Being imaginative and playful doesn’t make you any less of an adult,” Gabriel said gently. “It only makes you a more interesting one.”

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186. “No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.”

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187. “I’m almost always in a predicament.”

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188. “If you marry me, you’ll never be a lady of position.” “There is no better position for me than being your wife.” One of his big hands clasped over her skull, pressing her head against his shoulder. “I’ve always wanted more for you than this.” “Liar,” she whispered. “You always wanted me for yourself.” Laughter stirred in his chest. “Yes,” he admitted.”

— Lisa Kleypas

189. “Severin wasn’t handsome in comparison to the Challons- of course, what man would be?- nor was he handsome by strictly conventional standards. But there was something about him that women seemed to like. West was damned if he knew what it was. Severin’s face was lean and angular, his build lanky and almost rawboned, his complexion librarian pale. His eyes were an unevenly distributed mixture of blue and green, so that in strong lighting they appeared to be two entirely different colors.”

— Lisa Kleypas

190. “Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.”

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

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192. “Pandora was an unconventional girl: impulsive, intelligent, and usually filled with more energy than she seemed able to manage. Of all the three Ravenel sisters, she had been the least likely to marry the most eligible bachelor in England. However, it spoke well of Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, that he was able to appreciate her. In fact, from all accounts, St. Vincent had gone head over heels for her.”

— Lisa Kleypas

193. “Escort Mr. Ravenel up to my private apartments, where it seems I’ll be giving counsel to yet another of my daughter’s tormented suitors. This must be a penance for my misspent youth.”

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194. “Daisy Bowman,” he said unevenly, “I’d spend eternity in hell for one hour with you.” “Is that how long it takes? An hour?” His reply was rueful. “Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute.”

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195. “I had learned this lesson so many times before. It was the great inner truth that didn’t require the support of logic. Every time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished. I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.”

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

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197. “There was magic in the world, and it was woven throughout each ordinary day, the same force that pulled the tides and drove the rhythm of a human heart. Inspired.”

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198. “No one’s ever told me that I’m a comfortable sort. I’m sure I don’t like it. I’ll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.”

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199. “Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.”

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

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