Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “You can say whatever you like to me. I’m your oyster.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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252. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

254. “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

255. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

256. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

257. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

258. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

261. “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

262. “Lillian offered him a placating smile. “I never thought you would actually betray me that way. I was just afraid that you found her tempting. And I – ” “The only thing I find tempting is the idea of taking you to the tack room and applying a saddle strap to your bottom. Repeatedly. With vigor.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

267. “Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.”

— Lisa Kleypas

268. “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

269. “St. Vincent. Her husband. He was naked, or at least the upper half of him was. He slept on his stomach, his smoothly muscled arms curved around the pillow beneath his head. The broad lines of his shoulders and back were so perfect that they seemed to have been carved from pale Baltic amber and sanded to a glossy finish. His face was much softer in repose than it was in wakefulness... the calculating eyes were closed, and his mouth was relaxed into gentle, innocently sensuous lines.”

— Lisa Kleypas

270. “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

271. “I don’t deserve her,” he mumbled, without intending to. “Of course you don’t. Neither do I deserve my wife. It’s an unfair fact of life that the worst men end up with the best women.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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273. “The sideboard would be laden with broiled chops, eggs, rashers of bacon and ham, potatoes hashed with herbs and fried in butter, bread puddings each in its own puddle of sauce, a platter of crisp radishes and pickles on ice, dishes of stewed fruit from the orchard topped with fresh cream-.”

— Lisa Kleypas

274. “I had asked Todd once if he was gay, and he had said he didn’t care if someone was a man or a woman, he was more interested in the person’s inside. “So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and he had laughed at my insistence on a label. “I guess I’m bipossible,” he had said, and pressed a warm, careless kiss on my lips.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

276. “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

277. “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

278. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

280. “There’s nothing convenient about joining your life to another person’s. Marriage is a sack race: you may find a way to hop together toward the finish line, but you would still reach it more easily without the sack.”

— Lisa Kleypas

281. “When you grow up without something, the lack of it is always with you. Even when you finally have it.” Helen.”

— Lisa Kleypas

282. “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.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

284. “Marcus’s fear that his wife might succumb to childbed fever receded day by day as Lillian returned to her old self, healthy and slender and vigorous. His relief was vast. He had never known such overwhelming love for one person, nor had he anticipated that Lillian would so quickly become his essential requirement for happiness. Anything that was in his power to do for Lillian would be done.”

— Lisa Kleypas

285. “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

286. “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

287. “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

288. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

290. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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292. “Do you think it could be loneliness?” he suggested. “No, it’s not that.” Severin looked pensive. “What do you call it when everything seems boring and pointless, and even the people you know well are like strangers?” “Loneliness,” Devon said flatly. “Damn it. That makes six.” “Six what?” Devon asked in bewilderment. “Feelings. I’ve never had more than five feelings, and they’re hard enough to manage as it is. I’ll be damned if I’ll add another.”

— Lisa Kleypas

293. “Easy, pet.” His voice was laced with soft amusement. “I detect evidence of a temper, which I’ve no doubt you inherited from the old man. I’ve seen his eyes flash just that way when his dander is up over some trifle.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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295. “The audience falls in love with a leading man because he’ll never belong to any of them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

296. “Once again Matthew was taken unaware by the extent of the feelings she inspired in him, his own limitless desire to fill her with happiness. “Whatever you need,” he whispered, “Whatever you want, I’ll get it for you. Just tell me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lisa Kleypas

298. “But wishes don’t have expiration dates.”

— Lisa Kleypas

299. “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

300. “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