Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

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

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

Most of the time when couples argue, it's not really about the thing they're fighting about; there's a deeper reason why they're arguing.

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

Baptists don't spend their time thinking about reality.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

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.

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

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

I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.

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.

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

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.