Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

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've lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.

No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.

Among other things, I'm afraid of cows." "Because of their size?" Helen asked sympathetically. "No, it's the way they stare. As if they're plotting something.

You and I both know this doesn't have a damned thing to do with honor.

You're not trying to protect me. You're trying to protect yourself." She hugged herself to him tightly. "But you can force yourself to take the risk of loving someone, can't you?" "No," he whispered. "Yes. You must." Evie closed her eyes and pressed her face against his. "Because I love you, Sebastian…and I need you to love me back. And not in h-half measures.

I'm not going to ask a thousand people for their opinions," Phoebe said evenly. "Only one opinion is required, and it happens to be mine." She went to the doorway and paused, unable to resist adding, "That's leadership.

I'm twenty-one," she said indignantly. "Really?" "Yes, why do you sound skeptical?" "I wouldn't have expected to find a woman of your age in such a predicament." "I'm almost always in a predicament." Pandora jerked as she felt a gentle pressure on her back. "Hold

Oh, this is horriculous.

Dane touched my chin and lifted my face upward, and kissed me gently. Only then did I understand that Dane had always been a friend I had slept with, and how entirely different that was from having a lover who could be a friend.

I'll hold you 'til the end of time, if that's all you want from me. But there's so much more I could do for you. I would treasure you. I would-" He broke off, leaning so close she felt as if she were drowning in the tropical azure and ocean green of his eyes. "Marry me, Cassandra- and we'll tell them all to go to hell.

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

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

My son . . . guilt, in proper measure, can be a useful emotion. However, when indulged to excess it becomes self-defeating, and even worse, tedious.

Evie," he murmured. "I swear on my life, you will never feel pain from my hands. I may prove a devil of a husband in every other regard…but I wouldn't hurt you that way. You must believe that.

What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn't belong anywhere?

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

There is no peace in poverty

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.

Dont worry" Emma said "There are worse things than having your heart broken." "Like What?" Zoe asked skeptically. "Never having it broken. Never giving in to love

Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.

The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

I never get sick. Besides, I have this compulsion to take care of ailing Travises." "You would be the only one. We Travises are bad-tempered as hell when we're sick." "You're not all that nice when you're well either.