Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

There isn't going to be a 'next lover,'" Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. "I'm the only man she's going to have.

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

Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

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

I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.

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.

Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.

She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.

I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

Good God. I don't believe St. Vincent and the word 'celibacy' have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.