Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I went to the tray on the bed-table and picked up the Vicodin tablets the nurse had been trying to get him to take, along with a cup of water. “Take these,” I said. “No arguing.” He obeyed, shooting a glance at the nurse, whose eyebrows were slightly raised. “She’s little,” he told her, “but she’s mean.”

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352. “Holly, sweet darling, you can’t possibly think I’m going to let you go.” He gathered her against him, besieging her with kisses.”

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353. “I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime’s worth of things.”

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354. “Say as little as possible,” Lady Berwick told the girls severely. “Remember that silence is golden.” Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it’s platinum.”

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355. “Father, wouldn’t it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?”

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356. “I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.”

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357. “Have you ever courted anyone, Cousin West?” Pandora asked. “Only if I was certain the lady was too intelligent ever to accept me.”

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358. “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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359. “It is always more difficult for the people who swim against the current, Sophia.”

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360. “You’ll have to think of a way to solve this, Evie. Think of something fast... because otherwise... ” He paused to nip hungrily at her ear, “... otherwise I’m about to screw you senseless.”

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361. “You’ll always be Lachlan MacRae’s son. But you’re mine too.” A pause, and then he added hoarsely, “You can be mine too.” “Aye,” Keir whispered, while an unexpected sense of peace stole over him.”

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362. “You’d be surprised what people say across the manicure table.”

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363. “I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it... it’s in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes... ” His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep... a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. Or at least that was how Poppy felt about it.”

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364. “You look like a little girl when you sleep,” he murmured. “It makes me want to guard you every minute.”

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365. “We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, ‘It’s trousers’. And that’s what we’ve worn ever since.”

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366. “Theirs had been a complex relationship, two people who had been bound by disappointments and resentments the way others were bound by love. Helen.”

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367. “If I ever get arrested,” I said, “you will be my one phone call. Bail me out – that’s what you can do.” “If you ever get arrested,” Sofia said, “I’ll already be in jail as your accomplice.”

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368. “She heard him murmur her name, and then, to her utter astonishment, she saw him sink to his knees and felt his huge hands clutching the folds of silk at her hips. He buried his face against her midriff like an exhausted child. Shocked, Holly reached down to his dark hair. The thick, slightly curling strands were damp against her fingertips, and she stroked them lovingly. “Darling,” she whispered over and over, touching the hot nape of his neck.”

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369. “Did you suspect anything? Did you think the tie between us might be this close?” “No.” “I think I did, deep down. I always knew I wasn’t supposed to be alone.” Kev gave him a dour look. “This changes nothing. I’m not your family. There is no tie between us.” “Blood counts for something,” Cam replied affably. “And since the rest of my tribe has disappeared, you’re all I’ve got, phral. Just try and get rid of me.”

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370. “I didn’t think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who’d been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way.”

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371. “If I listened to your advice, I’d be making your mistakes instead of my own.”

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372. “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.” “As opposed to women,” Leo retorted, “who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.”

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373. “Economic change is always accompanied by social change. No one can stop that.”

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374. “Infuriated to the point of speechlessness, Kathleen glared at him while Helen discreetly pried the butter knife from her clenched fingers.”

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375. “I like that much better. I’ll call you Dragon.”

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376. “The glittering light of eight chandeliers was reflected in her upturned eyes, filling them with tiny sparks that made the blue irises look like a starry summer midnight. She was staring at him with an intensity that she had never shown before, as if she yearned for something she might never have. The look disquieted him, eliciting a powerful need to satisfy her in any way possible. Whatever she might have asked him for in that moment, he would have given without a qualm.”

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377. “Maybe he’s not college-smart, but he’s smart in a way they can’t teach.”

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378. “Start behaving like the mature woman you are, and acknowledge the fact that you have flaws. And give the poor devil a chance to prove that he can love you regardless.”

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379. “There was a new, wondering note in his voice as he said, “Kiss me again.” “No, I’ll hurt you. I’m leaning on your leg.” “That’s not my leg,” came his roguish reply, making her laugh. “You perverse man.”

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380. “Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don’t see what’s so alarming about that.”

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381. “We all have regrets,′ Leo said, taking a sip of brandy, letting the velvet fire slide down his throat. ‘It’s why I cling to my bad habits. One doesn’t have to start regretting something unless one stops doing it.”

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382. “You may not know this, but talking about mathematics eliminates any possibility of being kissed in the first place.”

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383. “Having your own church doesn’t make you a good guy. It only makes you tax-exempt.”

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384. “Holly’s presence in their lives offered a kind of grace neither of them had ever known before. A reminder of innocence. Something happened to you, they discovered, when you were given the unconditional love and trust of a child. You wanted to try to deserve it.”

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385. “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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386. “He seemed to read her thoughts easily, as if she were a treasured volume he had paged through a thousand times.”

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387. “For the first time in his life, he was beginning to recognize that true passion was not easily satisfied, that there was a difference between the needs of his cock and the organ that resided two feet above it. It was not a welcome discovery.”

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388. “It was one of those silences that was far more eloquent than words.”

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389. “I’ve dreamed of this for so long,” he whispered. “The first time we met, part of my brain said, ‘I want that one.”

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390. “I cry too easily,” she said in vexation. “I always have. I hate it.” “Why?” “It shows weakness.” “It shows strength,” he said. “Stoic people are the weak ones.”

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391. “Without thinking, Lillian let out a few curse words that caused Evie to blanch. One of Lillian’s more questionable accomplishments was the ability to swear as fluently as a sailor, acquired from much time spent with her grandmother, who had worked as a washwoman at the harbor docks.”

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392. “Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.”

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393. “You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.”

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394. “Heart of my heart, you need no man to give you away. Just come to me of your own free will. Love me for who I am... just as I love you for who you are... and our bond will last until the stars lose their shining.”

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395. “Stopping before them, St. Vincent confided, “I would have found you sooner, but I was attacked by a swarm of dingy-dippers.”

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396. “You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.”

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397. “A whirlwind of panic swept through her as Derek stripped off his white shirt. She switched her gaze to the floor, but not before she had seen how large and formidable his body was, his torso heavily muscled, his chest covered with thick black hair. Silvery scars marked his skin, legacies of his life in the rookery. He was a man of vast experience. All that was new and frightening to her was commonplace to him.”

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398. “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.”

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399. “They exchanged a brief grin and Westcliff left the room. “Arrogant, high-handed creature,” Lillian remarked, her smile lingering as she watched the earl’s departure. “God, I adore him.”

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400. “In defense of geeks,” Justine said, “they’re great in bed. They fantasize a lot, so they’re really creative. And they love to play with gadgets.”

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