Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.”

— Lisa Kleypas

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— 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. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

174. “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

175. “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.”

— 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. “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

178. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

179. “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

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

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181. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

185. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

186. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

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189. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

192. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

196. “And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone’s soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.”

— Lisa Kleypas

197. “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

198. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

199. “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

200. “One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.”

— Lisa Kleypas