Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

202. “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.”

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

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204. “Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.”

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

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206. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

208. “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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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “She strained as he began to kiss along the side of her neck. Her skin was hot from exertion, a little salty, and her scent was divinely arousing: horses, fresh winter air, roses.”

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214. “But one wrong half turn of a steering wheel, one patch of wet road, one out of control moment, and the amount of life measured out to Victoria Nolan had run cruelly short.”

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215. “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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216. “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.”

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217. “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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218. “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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219. “Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?”

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

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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.”

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

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

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230. “Tighten the reins? I’ll do my damnedest to make her as assertive as possible. Lysette should be terrified of me, yet she somehow has the courage to face me as an equal. I don’t deserve such a gift. God knows I won’t be fool enough to throw that away. I would slit my throat before asking that she pander to the rules of our quaint little society.”

— Lisa Kleypas

231. “A miscue,” Sebastian remarked, deftly catching the cue ball in his hand and repositioning it. “Whenever that happens, reach for more chalk, and apply it to the tip of the cue stick while looking thoughtful. Always imply that your equipment is to blame, rather than your skills.”

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

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

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235. “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.”

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236. “Hard work often produces better results than talent.”

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

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

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

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240. “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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241. “A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.”

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242. “You must learn to ignore what people say,” Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. “You’ll be much happier that way.” Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. “I’ve learned that while gossip about others is often true, it’s never true when it is about oneself.”

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243. “Evie fought to contain a rush of eagerness, afraid of appearing foolishly infatuated with him. However, no matter how sternly she tamped her feelings down beneath the surface, they seemed to sift out like diamond dust, sparkling visibly in the air around her. The odd thing was, he seemed similarly glad to be in her presence, for once discarding the guise of a jaded rake, and smiling at her with genuine warmth.”

— Lisa Kleypas

244. “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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245. “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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246. “A gorgeous woman was never expected to be smart, and if she was, most people found it off-putting. There was only so much good fortune a normal person could forgive in another.”

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247. “The night we met, I felt you like an electric shock. Something about you calls to the devil in me.”

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248. “The world expects a man to have a backbone. Especially when a woman is being harassed.”

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249. “How the hell could she hold him at fault for the situation when he’d had no choice in any of it? “What did I do to deserve that?” he demanded. West’s mouth twitched. “Aside from saying you were going to cast her out and destroy her home?” “I apologized!” “Never apologize to women. It only confirms that you were wrong, and incenses them further.”

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250. “Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.”

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