Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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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203. “No one ever thinks their own behavior is immoral, only other people’s.”

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

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

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206. “My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I’ve never know anyone like you.”

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207. “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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208. “I’m not kind, darling. I’m only nice to people when I’m planning to take advantage of them.” Lillian responded with a carefree grin, daring to ask, “Am I in danger from you, my lord?” Though his expression remained relaxed with good humor, his eyes were disturbingly intent. “I’m afraid so.”

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209. “I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I’ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.”

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210. “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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211. “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.”

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212. “Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?”

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213. “I hate the phrase ‘No pun intended.’ It’s pointless.”

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214. “He undressed before her, dropping his shirt to reveal a tautly muscled torso and a chest covered with with black hair. His big-framed body was clearly built for power rather than elegance. Yet there was something innately graceful about the long lines of muscle and sinew, and the heavy breadth of his shoulders. He was a man who made a woman feel safe, and at the same time, deliciously overpowered.”

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215. “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.”

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

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

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218. “Just because you can look a man in the eyes when you lie doesn’t mean you’ve fooled him.”

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219. “Poor man. You look as though you’d been attacked by a wild beast.” A husky laugh escaped him. “Just a small vixen,” he said, “who grew a bit fierce in her play.” “You should bite her back,” Pandora said against his chest. “That would teach her to be gentler with you.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”

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222. “The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.”

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223. “This was an ancient Romany courtship rite, and there would be nothing halfhearted about it. She was going to be kidnapped and ravished. Finally.”

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224. “It would be difficult to find a man still on the early side of his thirties who had acquired wealth and power at the speed that Tom Severin had. He’d started as a mechanical engineer designing engines, then progressed to railway bridges, and had eventually built his own railway line, all with the apparent ease of a boy playing leapfrog. Severin could be generous and considerate, but his better qualities were unanchored by anything resembling a conscience.”

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225. “Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.” Leo Hathaway.”

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226. “I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.”

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227. “If you intend to drink yourself to death,” Amelia had told Leo calmly, “I wish you would do it at a more affordable place.” “But I’m a viscount now,” Leo had replied nonchalantly. “I have to do it with style, or what will people say?” “That you were a wastrel and a fool, and the title might just as well have gone to a monkey?” That had elicited a grin from her handsome brother. “I’m sure that comparison is quite unfair to the monkey.”

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228. “He cradled my face in his hands and smiled into my streaming eyes. “Because I know you, Liberty Jones. Don’t cry, sweetheart, you’re killing me.” “I’ll make it up to you, I swear – ” “Shut up,” Gage said tenderly, and kissed me with a blistering heat that made my knees buckle.”

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229. “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.”

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230. “But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling.”

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

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232. “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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233. “The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.”

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234. “But I hadn’t known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.”

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235. “I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it’s been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.”

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236. “Although she was not conventionally beautiful, she was so original that it rendered the question of beauty inconsequential.”

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237. “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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238. “Let us don our armor of control.“-Lady Berwick.”

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239. “Your only value to me,” he said in a low tone, “is your knowledge of Lillian Bowman’s whereabouts. If I can’t obtain that from you, I’ll send you to the devil. Tell me, or I’ll choke it from you. And believe that I have enough of my father in me to do it without a second thought.”

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240. “Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.”

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241. “Please be real,” she gasped. “Please don’t be a dream.” “I’m real,” Matthew said huskily. “Don’t cry so hard, there’s no – oh, Daisy, love – ” He gripped her head in his hands and pressed comforting words against her lips while she struggled to get even closer to him. He eased her to the floor, using the reassuring weight of his body to subdue her.”

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242. “Then give me your answer.” He crushed a brief, impassioned kiss against her lips. “Say it, or I’ll have to keep kissing you until you surrender.”

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243. “He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.”

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244. “It’s a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick.”

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245. “He was black-haired and swarthy and exotic.”

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246. “I like that word,” Pandora mused. “Strumpet. It sounds like a saucy musical instrument.” “It.”

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247. “I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.”

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248. “Westcliff looks for any excuse to demonstrate his superiority, doesn’t he?” “Was that what he was doing? It looked rather like he was trying to find an excuse to put his arms around you.”

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249. “A gleam of humor flickered in those obsidian eyes. “I should warn you, Hannah: when we meet at Stony Cross Park, take care to avoid the mistletoe. For both our sakes.”

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250. “The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people – our characters or souls – can be shaped or changed by outside influences.”

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