Kleypas Quotes

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

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

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#3. The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior.

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#4. She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against
his despoiling hands.

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#5. 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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#6. Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.

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#7. Hunt immediately adjusted his hold, bracing her easily. "I thought you looked pale," he remarked, gently stroking back a lock of hair that had fallen over her damp face. "What's the matter, sweetheart? Is it just your stomach, or do you hurt somewhere else?

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#8. When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.

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#9. Someday you should let me give you a baby ...

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#10. It's a strange life, isn't it? ... A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo ... home is a family.

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#11. I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.

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#12. Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

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#13. A good perfumer was part alchemist, part artist, and part wizard.

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#14. Did you have a pleasant ride?" she asked softly, watching as Kathleen introduced Devon to Lady Berwick.
"Which ride are you referring to?" His tone was so bland that at first she didn't perceive his implication.
Helen shot him a shocked glance. "Don't be wicked," she whispered.

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#15. One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained.
It simply was.

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#16. I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard."

"You'll never find out. You--------"

He kissed me.

~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner

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#17. Bychan: little one Cariad: sweetheart, beloved one Annwyl:

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

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#19. The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

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#20. Clearly there was no headway to be made in an argument when one's opponent was insane.

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#21. A book had always been a door to another world ... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.
And that love could fill the real world with magic.

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#22. If it's grouse season," Gabriel pointed out acidly, "and you're keeping company with a flock of grouse on a grouse-moor, it's a bit disingenuous to ask a sportsman to pretend you're not a grouse.

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#23. Amelia tried to imagine it, lying undefended on the hard ground, at the mercy of every creature that crawled, crept, or flew. "I don't think I could fall asleep that way."
She felt his hand playing slowly in the loose locks of her hair. "You could." His voice was soft. "I would help you.

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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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#26. Very well," Beatrix said reluctantly. "But I warn you, they may be resistant to the match."
"I'm resistant to the match," Christopher informed her. "At least we'll have that in common.

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#27. I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't," Josie muttered.
"Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

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#28. It's nothing for you to worry about."
"Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.' "
"Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

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#29. Those aren't my favorite," Helen admitted. "But I hope to love them someday. Sometimes one must love something before it becomes lovable.

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#30. It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

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#31. What about the other guy?" My eyes half closed as I felt the heel of his hand brush the side of my breast. "He's the past," I managed to say. "You're the future." "Damn right I am.

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#32. Be careful dear that you don't end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

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#33. Once again Matthew was taken unaware by the extent of the feelings she inspired in him, his own limitless desire to fill her with happiness. "Whatever you need," he whispered, "Whatever you want, I'll get it for you. Just tell me.

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#34. 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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#35. Think of it this way-going to bed naked is better for the environment."
"Oh, shut up."
"Come on, Ella. Sleep green.

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#36. You might loosen your corset strings," he advised. "It will make your journey more pleasant."
"I'm not wearing a c-corset," she said without looking at him.
"You aren't? My God." His gaze slid over her with expert assessment.

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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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.

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#40. The purpose of the latest series of intellectual meetings, which were held in various parlors in Concord, was to talk about Reconstruction with objectivity, sensibility, and a lack of prejudice. As everyone had expected, the meetings were far from objective, seldom sensible, and never unprejudiced.

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#41. She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.

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#42. I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose."

~ Haven Travis

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#43. Rather than list all the things I don't like about him," Daisy said finally, "it's far easier to say there is no reason why I should like him.

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#44. I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia

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#45. Making a shallow bow, Marcus smiled at Daisy, for whom he thought he could easily develop a brotherly affection. The slightness of her form and her sweetly exuberant spirit reminded him of Livia in her younger years.

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#46. It seemed that no matter what her faults were, he was willing to accept her for who she was, and who she was not.

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#47. Love forgives all things. You don't even need to ask.

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#48. I think you could probably thaw out a glacier, honey.
-Hardy Cates

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#49. I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo."
-Liberty Jones

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#50. I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind."
He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.

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#51. We try to conceal our defects and say the things we think the other one wants to hear. We pretend that we're always lovely and sweet-tempered and that we don't mind the other's nasty little habits. And then after the wedding, we lower the boom.

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#52. Derek.' There was an odd smile on her face. 'Your cockney is showing.

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#53. Sleep," she heard him whisper. "And if you have any more nightmares ... I'll kiss them all away.

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#54. Believe me, when my 'personal endowments' are being discussed, I always pay attention." ~ Cam Rohan

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#55. 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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#56. The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.

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#57. I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

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#58. I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.
Logan to Madeline

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#59. Whatever your happiness requires," he said, "you'll have it.

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#60. 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.

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#61. What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?"
"His posture," Hannah muttered.
"What about it?"
"He slouches."
"He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.

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#62. Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

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#63. I'm almost always in a predicament.

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#64. One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

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#65. All hat, no cattle ... doing whatever it took to keep up the appearance of wealth, when in reality he is no better off than anyone else. - Texas saying

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#66. One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone ... and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

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#67. But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

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#68. Don't you dare send me away, you c-coward. Who else would love my freckles? Who
else would care that my feet were cold? Who else would ravish me in the billiards
room?

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#69. A gleam of humor flickered in those obsidian eyes. I should warn you, Hannah: when we meet at Stony Cross Park, take care to avoid the mistletoe. For both our sakes.

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#70. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes." Leo Hathaway

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#71. It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

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#72. There is no peace in poverty

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#73. Some questions change everything.

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#74. As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared for
trouble.
We just tried like hell to get out of the way when it came.

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#75. I never talked about you much. I said to Hardy. My voice sounded odd to my own ears.
Hardy stared into my eyes and nodded, understanding that some things mean too
much to be expressed easily.

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#76. 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.

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#77. A man is not entitled to be called a father merely because he once had a well-timed spasm of the loins.

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#78. Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

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#79. His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.

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#80. You wanted to belong. The problem was, no matter how well you kept your secret, the very fact of having one was enough to separate you from everyone else.

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#81. He pulled the truck back onto the road and floored it, while the words ran through his mind in a constant loop.
Don't leave. Don't leave.

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#82. The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

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#83. You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife.

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#84. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Lillian, my sweet love ... you're safe now. I'll never let anything happen to you again. I swear it on my life. You're safe.

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#85. He looked down with pleasure-hazed eyes, at her face so tenderly confined in the bracket of his hands, and he whispered in Romany, I am yours.

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#86. 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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#87. I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

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#88. Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

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#89. No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

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#90. If I'm to change my life for you, I've got to have some hope."
"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.

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#91. 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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#92. 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.

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#93. Some things are better when it's raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this."
"Lying in bed with me?

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

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#95. So you dared to walk into the lion's den."
She smiled up into his intent dark eyes. "As it turned out, there was no danger."
"No?" His voice held gently mocking note. "Look where it's led. You're in my bedroom with your dress undone.

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#96. Fairy tales are best read as entertainment," Harry said. "Not as a guide to life.

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#97. No one ever thinks their own behavior is immoral, only other people's.

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#98. Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

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#99. 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.

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#100. I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.

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