Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “You look like a little girl when you sleep,” he murmured. “It makes me want to guard you every minute.”

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402. “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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403. “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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404. “Simon had never forgotten the first moment that he had seen her standing outside the panorama, digging through her purse with a little pucker on her forehead. The sun had picked out streaks of gold and champagne in her light brown hair and made her skin glow. There had been something so delicious... so touchable... about her, the velvety skin and shining blue eyes, and the slight frown that he had longed to soothe away.”

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

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407. “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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408. “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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409. “I’m not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I’ve wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...”

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410. “The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis.”

— Lisa Kleypas

411. “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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412. “He preferred to ease his way into the day, whereas Amelia liked to fling herself at it full tilt.”

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413. “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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414. “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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415. “You may not know this, but talking about mathematics eliminates any possibility of being kissed in the first place.”

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

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

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419. “In his life, he’d had more than his share of lectures, some brutal enough to leave permanent gouges in his soul. But no man had ever spoken to him quite like this- wry, honest, direct, bracing, and a bit high-handed in a way that felt oddly reassuring. Fatherly.”

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

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421. “Take your bath, pet,” he finally managed to say. “You’re safe from me tonight. I may look, but I won’t touch. Go on.”

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422. “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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423. “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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424. “I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.”

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425. “She’s mine, he had said... and her heart had throbbed in answer... recognizing it as truth.”

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426. “You know, Marks, if you ever learned to hold your tongue, your chances of attracting a man would rise exponentially.” Her eyes narrowed. “Why would I want to attract a man? I have yet to see anything they’re good for.” “If for nothing else,” Leo said, “you need us to help produce more women.”

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427. “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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428. “Aline,” he whispered, mercilessly divesting himself of all pride, “I’m afraid of what I’ll become if you won’t have me.”

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429. “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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430. “I didn’t know how to stop wanting him. It wasn’t that I had any hope – I knew I’d never see him again. But that didn’t stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.”

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431. “Daisy,” Westcliff said gently, “most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without Daisy Bowman in it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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

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433. “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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434. “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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435. “Did Llandrindon kiss you?” She nodded slowly in the framework of his hands. “Just once.” Jealousy entered his voice. “Did you like it?” “I wanted to. I tried to.” She closed her eyes and turned her cheek into his palm. “But it wasn’t at all like your kisses.”

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

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437. “The truth is, you can never really know a man until you’ve loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you’ve slept in her bed.”

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438. “The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.”

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439. “I’m twenty-one,” she said indignantly. “Really?” “Yes, why do you sound skeptical?” “I wouldn’t have expected to find a woman of your age in such a predicament.” “I’m almost always in a predicament.” Pandora jerked as she felt a gentle pressure on her back. “Hold.”

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440. “What is he doing here?” Zachary asked beneath his breath. Holly reached for his tense arm and held it lightly. “It’s a very great favor,” she whispered back. “By attending our wedding, Lord Blake is publicly showing his support of our marriage.” “More likely taking his last opportunity to ogle you.”

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441. “Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn’t cut it out.”

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442. “Her voice was so soothing and gentle that it would have caused an assortment of cobras, tigers, wolverines, and badgers to all snuggle together and take a group nap.”

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443. “Americans and romance. It’s like watching a bird try to fly with one wing.”

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444. “Some questions change everything.”

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445. “I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you...”

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446. “Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel’s chest like an ache. He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.”

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447. “You have to keep taking chances on the wrong people till you find the right one.”

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448. “I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation.”

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449. “She was so endearing, so indomitable, that Gabriel was wrenched with a feeling he’d never known before, as if all the extremes of joy and despair had been compressed into some new emotion that threatened to crack the walls of his heart.”

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450. “Most men have inner demons,” Kingston replied quietly. “God knows I do. So does a friend who’s the finest and most genuinely moral man I’ve ever known.”

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