Lisa Kleypas Quotes

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

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.

In this life and the next, you're my only hope at happiness.

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.

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

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

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

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

I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you down with me." My hand crept up to caress the rigid line of his jaw. "Why'd you change your mind?" I whispered. "After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured . . . I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

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.

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.

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

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.

The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis

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.

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

...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.

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.

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

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

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

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

If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.

I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word...the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.