Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

253. “I die,” he continued, “you’re next in line.” “Do you actually believe I’ll outlive you?” West asked. “With all my vices?” “I have just as many.” “Yes, but I’m far more enthusiastic about mine.”

— Lisa Kleypas

254. “I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined.”

— Lisa Kleypas

255. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

256. “The fourteen-year-old boys, Ashton and Augustus, were the youngest offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hunt, who had been close friends to the Challons since before Phoebe had been born.”

— Lisa Kleypas

257. “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

258. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

259. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

261. “Following Westcliff, Lord St. Vincent paused just long enough to murmur to Amelia, “Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes to myself... keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth.” He winked at her and left, striding to the back terrace along with Westcliff.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

268. “Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. “You’re my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

270. “St. Vincent was a handsome man with wheat-colored hair and pale blue eyes. Some claimed he had the most perfect form and features of any man alive. The looks of a saint, the soul of a scoundrel.”

— Lisa Kleypas

271. “And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.”

— Lisa Kleypas

272. “I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life.”

— Lisa Kleypas

273. “I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.”

— Lisa Kleypas

274. “You can say whatever you like to me. I’m your oyster.”

— Lisa Kleypas

275. “Something about her brings out the devil in me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

276. “Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you’ve always wanted to do but haven ’t yet.”

— Lisa Kleypas

277. “Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.”

— Lisa Kleypas

278. “Some people there’s no getting over.”

— Lisa Kleypas

279. “The perfume works,” she insisted. “Not only did you respond to it, but Annabelle tried it on her husband – and she swears that he kept her up all night as a result.” “Sweetheart,” Marcus said wryly, “Hunt has behaved like a boar in rut around Annabelle since the first day they met. It’s typical behavior for him, where she is concerned.”

— Lisa Kleypas

280. “The sin was not love, but the lack of it. The thing to fear was not scandal, but the betrayal of one’s own morality.”

— Lisa Kleypas

281. “These are marks of a life well lived, and risks taken, and miracles you brought into the world. They’re signs of having loved and been loved.”

— Lisa Kleypas

282. “You look like a butterfly that’s just flown in from the garden,” Hunt said softly.”

— Lisa Kleypas

283. “As she drowsed in his arms, it occurred to her that he provided the illusion of something she had never had before. Sanctuary. His hand passed repeatedly over her hair in the gentlest of caresses, and she heard him murmur in his dark-angel voice, “Rest, my love. I’m watching over you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

284. “Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.”

— Lisa Kleypas

285. “Of all the Hathaways, Poppy was the one Catherine had always felt the most comfortable with. Poppy was a warm and talkative young woman who loved order and routine. Hers was an essentially sunny and accepting nature, providing a necessary balance to Harry’s driven intensity.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

287. “I know many scientific facts about the human heart- not the least of which is that it’s far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.”

— Lisa Kleypas

288. “Here’s your hat, and by the way, I’m a virgin.”

— Lisa Kleypas

289. “Courting sometimes has the unpleasant side effect of marriage.”

— Lisa Kleypas

290. “I’ve always thought there was a fair amount of dishonesty involved in politeness.”

— Lisa Kleypas

291. “Those mesmerizing eyes stared right into hers with an intensity that caused her brain to do an abrupt control-alt-delete.”

— Lisa Kleypas

292. “There’s only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.”

— Lisa Kleypas

293. “Kev wasn’t certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”

— Lisa Kleypas

294. “No woman should be afraid to sparkle.”

— Lisa Kleypas

295. “The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you’ll remember the rest of your life.”

— Lisa Kleypas

296. “And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.”

— Lisa Kleypas

297. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

298. “She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.”

— Lisa Kleypas

299. “I’m all tangled up in these dratted – ” she hesitated, wondering what to call the elaborate wooden curls and twists carved into the back of the settee. “ – swirladingles,” she finished. “Acanthus scrolls,” the man said at the same time. A second passed before he asked blankly, “What did you call them?” “Never mind,” Pandora said with chagrin. “I have a bad habit of making up words, and I’m not supposed to say them in public.” “Why not?” “People might think I’m eccentric.”

— Lisa Kleypas

300. “As she had once told Kathleen, sometimes one had to love something before it became lovable.”

— Lisa Kleypas