Lisa Kleypas Quotes: 49

• I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

  Blue-Eyed Devil

• I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.

  Again the Magic

• I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.

  Tempt Me at Twilight

• There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?

  It Happened One Autumn

• For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.

  Again the Magic

• A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

  A Wallflower Christmas

• Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

  Sugar Daddy

• Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

  Sugar Daddy

• I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.

  Married By Morning

• Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

  Devil in Winter

• It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.

  Devil in Winter

• There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

  Married By Morning

• If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

  Sugar Daddy

• The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

  Mine Till Midnight

• You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent could use some work.” Supporting himself on his elbows, Leo took her face in his hands. “But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I’ve ever known.

  Married By Morning

• I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.-Ella Varner

  Smooth Talking Stranger

• It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

  Tempt Me at Twilight

• You seem to think you have a choice,"Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

  Married By Morning

• 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 you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

  Scandal in Spring

• I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.

  Dreaming of You

• You think I'd cheat on you?"I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster."With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.

  Smooth Talking Stranger

• I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any.

  Seduce Me at Sunrise

• I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."~ Hardy Cates

  Sugar Daddy

• I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you."-Kev to Win

  Seduce Me at Sunrise

• Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

  Sugar Daddy

• 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.

  Sugar Daddy

• You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

  Sugar Daddy

• One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

  Smooth Talking Stranger

• I'll follow you to the next life if I have to,"he whispered harshly in her ear. "You'll never be free of me. I'll chase you through heaven and hell and beyond."He continued to whisper without stopping while his hands gripped her body close to his. "You stay with me, Holly,"he muttered savagely. "Don't do this to me. You stay, damn you.

  Where Dreams Begin

• You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.

  Because You're Mine

• ...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

  Mine Till Midnight

• But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.

  Seduce Me at Sunrise

• Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

  Love in the Afternoon

• You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot’s been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?”“Yes. I make your feet tingle.”A smile came to his lips. “Among other things.

  Love in the Afternoon

• You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

  Married By Morning

• I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet,"Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.

  Secrets of a Summer Night

• So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said.“Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?”“I thought they might be part of your disguise.”“My disguise?”“Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

  Married By Morning

• A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

  Seduce Me at Sunrise

• Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?"And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.

  Mine Till Midnight

• She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope,"Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin."-Rohan to Win

  Mine Till Midnight

• 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.

  Married By Morning

• Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist.“To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

  Secrets of a Summer Night

• You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?" "Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-" "My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.

  Where Dreams Begin

• Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you."Leo

  Tempt Me at Twilight

• Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

  Married By Morning

• Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.”“You should be.” His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought hers again. There was a note in his voice that gently robbed her of breath. “You could do with a bit of spoiling.

  Secrets of a Summer Night

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

  Secrets of a Summer Night

• Some folks are happier not being saved.

  Sugar Daddy

• 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.

  Tempt Me at Twilight