Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.”

— Lisa Kleypas

252. “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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253. “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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254. “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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255. “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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256. “The world expects a man to have a backbone. Especially when a woman is being harassed.”

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

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259. “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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260. “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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261. “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.”

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

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263. “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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264. “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.”

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265. “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.”

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.”

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269. “It was insane to let a creature so perfectly beautiful and artlessly spirited and vulnerable as his wife venture out into a world that could crush her with casual unconcern, and he had no choice but to allow it. But he had no illusions about ever being comfortable with it. For the rest of his life, he would feel a stab of dread every time she walked out the door, leaving him there with his heart wide open.”

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270. “She was the guest everyone invited when they needed to blend a group of disparate personalities, just as a roux would bind soup or sauce into velvety smoothness.”

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271. “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.”

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272. “Jesus, you get sentimental when you’re high on paint fumes.”

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273. “I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess – technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.”

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274. “He’s not going to die, you know. It’s only nice, saintly people who suffer untimely deaths.” She gave a quiet laugh. “Whereas selfish bastards like St. Vincent live to torment other people for decades.”

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275. “What are you going to say if she tells you that she had a row with Winterborne?” Cassandra asked. “I’ll tell her to have more of them,” Kathleen said. “One can’t allow a man to have his way all the time.” She paused reflectively. “Once Lord Berwick told me that when a horse pulls at the reins, one should never pull back. Instead, loosen them. But never more than an inch.”

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276. “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-.”

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277. “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.”

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

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

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280. “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.”

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281. “Milady,” she said quietly, “I hardly recognize ye.” Holly’s smile wavered, and she took a deep breath. “Is that a good thing or a bad thing, Maude? What would my husband have said, if he had ever seen me like this?” “I think Master George would have loved to see ye in that red gown,” Maude replied thoughtfully. “He was a man, after all.”

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282. “My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.”

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283. “You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. “But, my love... you didn’t specify where.”

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284. “Murmuring her name, he brought her hand to his face and nuzzled ardently into her palm, his lips brushing the warm circlet of her gold wedding band. “My love is upon you,” he whispered... and she knew then that she had won. This imperfect, extraordinary, passionate man was hers, his heart given over completely to her safekeeping. It was a trust she would never betray.”

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285. “I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.”

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

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

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288. “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.”

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

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290. “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.”

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

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292. “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.”

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293. “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.”

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294. “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.”

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

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

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297. “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.”

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298. “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.”

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

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300. “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