Lisa Kleypas quotes - page 6

If you married me, it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut. (Lisa Kleypas)
Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones. View quote
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She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy. View quote
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His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. View quote
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One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity. View quote
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That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. "Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he's a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes. View quote
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A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left. View quote
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Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her. View quote
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Be careful dear that you don't end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom. View quote
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Shaw... has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it. View quote
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But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late. (Lisa Kleypas)
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was. View quote
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are. View quote
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids. View quote
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If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own. View quote
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Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of. View quote
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You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me. View quote
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Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. "No, the divorce was great,” I said. "It was the marriage that sucked. View quote
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The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found. (Lisa Kleypas)
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. View quote
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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. View quote
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...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. View quote
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Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours. View quote
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