Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I’ve never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn’t know what to do with it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

152. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

157. “By being the master of the house. Back in America the woman is the ruler of the home, but in England everything revolves around the man.”

— Lisa Kleypas

158. “Whatever her purposes, I won’t have my grandsons raised by an invertebrate.” “Sebastian,” she chided softly, although her lips quivered with amusement. “I mean for her to partner with Weston Ravenel. A healthy young buck with sharp wits and a full supply of manly vigor. He’ll do her much good.” “Let’s allow Phoebe to decide if she wants him,” Evie suggested. “She had better decide soon, or Westcliff will snap him up for one of his daughters.”

— Lisa Kleypas

159. “Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?”

— Lisa Kleypas

160. “Well, there was something I once read... It was an astronomy book that said in most of the constellations, the stars don’t actually belong together. They only appear to. They look to us as if they’re close to each other, but some of them exist in another part of the galaxy altogether. That’s how my family was. We seemed to belong to the same group, but we were all very far apart.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

164. “Cariad, nothing about this is casual to me. But if you want a long, sensitive discussion about my feelings, I can’t help you. I’m from North Wales, where we express ourselves by throwing rocks at trees. I’ve had more feelings in the past half-hour than I have in my entire life, and I’m at my limit.” “That still doesn’t – ” “I love whatever it is you’re made of. All of it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

166. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

167. “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

168. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

171. “I’ve lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

173. “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

174. “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

175. “Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman’s beds and knew exactly what to do in them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

176. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

177. “It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

179. “My heart only beats as an echo of yours.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

181. “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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182. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

183. “But life is what novels are about. A novel can contain more truth than a thousand newspaper articles or scientific papers. It can make you imagine, just for a little while, that you’re someone else – and then you understand more about people who are different from you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

185. “Husband and wives are never completely honest with each other – no marriage could survive it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

186. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

187. “Oh, God,” Annabelle said feelingly, and turned her face against Hunt’s shoulder, as if closing her eyes would make them all disappear. Her ear tingled as Hunt bent to murmur to her, his voice threaded with amusement. “Checkmate.”

— Lisa Kleypas

188. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

189. “Sin is never free, there’s either an up-front cost or an invoice to pay later.”

— Lisa Kleypas

190. “Sweetheart.” He let out a serrated breath. “You tempt me just by being in the same room with me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

191. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

194. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

195. “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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196. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

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198. “Some are nice and some aren’t. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.”

— Lisa Kleypas

199. “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

200. “A queen, you are,” he said softly. “I could travel the world the rest of my life, and not find another woman with half your ways.”

— Lisa Kleypas