Lisa Kleypas Quotes

#1. You ... you are so ... ' She couldn't even think of a suitable word.
'I know. Woefully primitive.' Laughter threaded through his voice. 'But I must be tolerated, because I'm a man and I really can't help it.

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#2. Gasping, St. Vincent lifted his head to stare at her as if she were a variety of creature he had never seen before. "Good Lord," he whispered, his expression not one of gratification, but of something close to alarm.

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#3. My guardian angel," he said, the words beginning to slur. "I don't think I ever had one until now." "If you did," she said, "you probably ran too fast for her to keep up with you." He made a quiet sound of amusement.
- Leo & Catherine

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#4. Turning, she held her arms out to him in a maternal gesture. McKenna went to her at once, his black head lowering to her soft, round shoulder as he wept.

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#5. You'd be surprised what people say across the manicure table.

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#6. He doesn't prefer your kind. There are men with certain appetites that can be fulfilled only by very skilled women, and you ... ' She paused and viewed Madeline critically. 'Something tells me that your repertoire is extremely limited.'
'I don't even have a repertoire,' Madeline said gloomily.

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#7. Am I dealing with stubbornness, idiocy, or some combination of the two?"
"-Cam Rohan

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#8. He couldn't change the fact of what he was, nor would he be able to shield Amelia from all the arrows that would be aimed at the wife of a gypsy. But he would be damned if he would let her make her way through a merciless world without him.

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#9. Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

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#10. Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

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#11. Remember that silence is golden

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#12. Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

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#13. I cleared my throat and tried to sound casual, like this was no big deal. "I don't even get cheesy seduction music?"
Jack shook his head. "I usually do this a cappella."
"You mean unaccompanied?"
"No, I haven't done this unaccompanied since I was fourteen."
-Ella & Jack

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#14. If one doesn't do something well, it shouldn't be done."
"I don't agree," she protested. "Sometimes the effort should be made even if the results aren't perfect.

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#15. Hardy would never be the easiest man to have a relationship with. He was complex and strong-willed and rough-edged. But I loved those qualities about him. I was more than willing to take him exactly as he was. And it didn't hurt that he seemed equally game to take me on my own terms.

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#16. Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

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#17. My point is, when someone is hurting you, they can call it whatever the hell they want. They can even call it love. But words lie, actions don't.

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#18. Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

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#19. Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that."
Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.

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#20. Despite his flaws, one has to admit that he is a whale-sized catch."
"I'll be thrilled when someone harpoons him," Lillian muttered, making the other two laugh.

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#21. I'm going to kiss you as long and as often as I like, and you're not to utter a word of protest.

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#22. Truly? You've been chaste for that long?"
"'Chaste' implies a purity of thought that I assure you does not apply. But I have been celibate.

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#23. 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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#24. Nikki," she whispered, "are you going to visit my bed tonight?"
"Is that an invitation?"
Emma paused in her playful kissing "would you like it in writing?

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#25. Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?

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#26. He preferred to ease his way into the day, whereas Amelia liked to fling herself at it full tilt.

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#27. Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin.

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#28. Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

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#29. You don't need Mom and Dad's permission to take charge of your own life. Find something you want to do, and don't give up on it. You can start tomorrow.

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#30. I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?'
'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.

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#31. Thank you for saving him," Evie heard herself say to Westcliff, still staring at her husband.
The earl slid her a sideways glance. "You saved him, Evie on the night you offered to marry him. Which is evidence, I suppose, that moments of lunacy can occasionally lead to positive results. [ ... ]

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#32. Every time I see you," he murmured, "I think you couldn't possibly become any more beautiful - and you always prove me wrong.

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#33. 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.

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#34. If I were an opera singer, Id have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

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#35. I didn't care if Travis had holstered his gun, double-bagged it, or tied it in a knot. He could probably get a woman pregnant just by winking at her.
-Ella's thoughts

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#36. Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low.

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#37. Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

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#38. You've already found your tribe." She hitched a leg over his hips. "It's called the Hathaways.

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#39. Beatrix had met Christopher Phelan on two occasions, the first at a local dance, where she had judged him to be the most arrogant man in Hampshire. The next time she had met him was at a picnic, where she had revised her opinion: he was the most arrogant man in the entire world.

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#40. I love you," she said wretchedly. "And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from you. If I were well, I would take you to my bed, and I would show you as much passion as any woman could.

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#41. I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

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#42. Life is far kinder to shallow people.

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#43. His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. "Why can't you see yourself as I see you?"
-Jack to Amanda

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#44. A man who wants trouble can find it anywhere.

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#45. Evie," Lillian interupted impatiently, "men expect to be deceived in these matters. They're happiest that way. If one were straightforward with them the whole prospect of marriage would be too alarming, and none of them would ever do it.

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#46. As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

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#47. He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

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#48. If you pretend
everything's fine long enough,
everything eventually becomes fine.

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#49. What are their names? Psycho and Killer?"
He shook his head. "Cupcake and Twinkie."
My mouth dropped open. "You're kidding."
A grin flitted across his lips. "Afraid not."
If naming them after dessert snacks had been Miss Marva's attempt to make them seem cute, it wasn't working.

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#50. It seemed to be a matter of general agreement that Hardy Cates was born for trouble, and sooner or later he would find it.

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#51. You were never one to moon over handsome boys, or talk about balls and parties, or dream about your future husband."
"That was because of Merripen," Win admitted. "He was all I ever wanted.

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#52. She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

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#53. Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.

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#54. Like her father, Swift found little in her that was worthy of interest.

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#55. You're still our sister," Pandora said. "It doesn't matter to me whether you were sired by our old terrible father, or your new terrible father."
"I didn't need the extra one," Helen said glumly.

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#56. Lord St. Vincent sees to it that his wife is dressed like a queen. I'll tell thee summat: if she wanted the moon for her looking glass, he'd find a way to pull it down for her.

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#57. Gossip has nowhere to go except in circles.

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#58. Dane touched my chin and lifted my face upward, and kissed me gently. Only then did I understand that Dane had always been a friend I had slept with, and how entirely different that was from having a lover who could be a friend.

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#59. I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

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

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#61. This was getting bloody ridiculous, he thought savagely. If she became any more adorable, endearing, or delectable, something was going to get broken.
Most likely his heart.

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#62. You're a strong woman, Annabelle. Stronger than I would have believed."
"No, it's my love for you that is strong.

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

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#64. My sweet, there are altogether too many respectable ladies in the world. The supply has far exceeded the demand. But there's an appalling shortage of attractive pirates, and you do seem to have a gift for plundering and ravishing. I think we've found your true calling.

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#65. One can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

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#66. Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.

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#67. Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

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#68. A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.

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#69. Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.

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#70. I'm going to take Charity to France. I can look after her there. You can go on with your life here, and I won't be here to ... to bother anyone."
He muttered two quiet words.
"What?" she asked in bewilderment, inching forward to hear him.
"I said, try it.

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#71. I would become anyone, anything for you. I would lie, steal, beg, kill for you. I'm not sorry for what I did in the past few months. My life would have been nothing without them.

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#72. No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.

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#73. Are you going to argue with me?"
Beatrix tried to sound meek. "No, sir."
A slow smile crossed his face. "That was the worst attempt at obedience I've ever seen.

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#74. I was so proud of you today," she said, smiling down at him. "And perhaps a tiny bit smug that with all the women swooning and sighing over you, I'm the one you went home with."
Arching a brow, Christopher asked, "Only a tiny bit smug?"
"Oh, very well. Enormously smug.

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#75. 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.

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#76. She's mine, he had said ... and her heart had throbbed in answer ... recognizing it as truth.

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#77. Oh, this is horriculous.

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#78. Gabriel, go find a proper bed and rest for a few hours. We'll watch over your little fox cub.

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#79. Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

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#80. 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.

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#81. I love you. I don't give a damn if your father is the devil himself. I'd let you stab a knife in my heart if it pleased you, and I'd lie there loving you until my last breath.-Rhys Winterborne's to Helen Ravenel

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#82. He's a good man.He's staightforward and he knows exactly what he wants-"
"Yes. You must favor your mother."
She smiled reluctantly at the gentle taunt.

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#83. Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.

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#84. The moment you enter the room, the earl becomes far more animated. It is obvious that he is fascinated by you. One can hardly have a conversation with him, as he is constantly straining to hear what you are saying, and watching your every movement.

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#85. She had made Matthew want to smile. With her luminous skin, her exotic cinnamon-colored eyes and quicksilver expressions, Daisy Bowman seemed to have come from an enchanted forest populated with mythical creatures.

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#86. I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone. Otherwise you will come to resent me.

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#87. He said only two words. But they explained everything he was doing, and everything he intended to do. You're mine.

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#88. One waltz," he said gently. Distrusting her own response to him, the magnitude of her desire to step into his arms, Lillian shook her head. "I think ... I think that would be a mistake. Thank you, but - " "Coward.

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#89. 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.

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#90. You really should discard your inhibitions,' he said. 'They could get in the way of yielding to temptation.

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#91. You'll have to be careful, then," he said softly, smiling. "It would be a shame for some intelligent comment to slip out at the wrong moment.

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#92. although she was disposed to follow the rules whenever possible, she was also willing to discard them when necessary.

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#93. And although there were countless single dads who were raising daughters, no one could deny that there were milestones that a girl wanted a mother for.

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#94. I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.

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#95. Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby
customer-service number?

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#96. 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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#97. My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend to
repeat them.

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#98. the point of shopping is to look at things, not to buy

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#99. I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.

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#100. Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I am indebted-"
"Don't be.This doesn't mean I like you or your politics any better," Heath said gruffly.

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