Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Sweetheart.” He let out a serrated breath. “You tempt me just by being in the same room with me.”

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

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

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204. “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.”

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “Although she was not conventionally beautiful, she was so original that it rendered the question of beauty inconsequential.”

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

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

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

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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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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. “My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I’ve never know anyone like you.”

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

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

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

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

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229. “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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230. “I’ve needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline.”

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231. “Stay with me,” Zachary said quietly. “I’ll send for Rose, and you’ll both live here while we arrange for the wedding.” “You know I can’t do that.” He frowned and guided her carefully around a small marble and brass sundial set in the ground. “I don’t want to let you out of my sight.”

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232. “Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.”

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

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234. “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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235. “Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.”

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

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

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238. “I’ll be a Winterborne,” Helen said calmly. “They should worry about that I’ll think of them.”

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

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240. “It was a law of nature that only the strongest survived, and the weakest had better get the hell out of the way.”

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

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243. “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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244. “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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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. “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.”

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

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249. “Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.”

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250. “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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