Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

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

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

Some people there's no getting over.

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

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

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

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

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

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

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.

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.

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

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

No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

You won't kiss me for diamonds," he said, his voice slightly raspy, "but you will for chocolates?" Poppy nodded.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

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

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Oh, I have a very pure soul. It's only my private parts that have gotten me into trouble".

He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

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?

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

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.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.