Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love," the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. "But I don't think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.

The bargain…" she mumbled. "You said I could kiss you," came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. "But, my love…you didn't specify where.

If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.

Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.

Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

... no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life.

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.

I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

In this life and the next, you're my only hope at happiness.

You can't love someone new without getting over the last one.

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.