Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

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.

I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

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

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.

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.

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

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.

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

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

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

Having regrets is the only sign that you've done anything interesting with your life.

Friends are the support bras of life.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucy's nose as if she was a child. "Friends are the support bras of life. We don't let each other down. Right?

Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.