Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

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.

The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. "I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined," he said sourly.

Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.

I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.

My love is upon you.

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

Every time you look at me, you'll remember that I'm half his." "No." His hand came to the side of her face, his thumb wiping her tears. "You're all mine." His voice was deep and shaken. "Every hair on your head. Every part of you was made to be loved by me.

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

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

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

She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is there any emergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?' 'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.

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

Win told me that one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

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

So are you bisexual?" I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. "I guess I'm bipossible," he had said.

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

If the feeling is there, you might as well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying them, doesn't change a damn thing

A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.

And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.