Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

I don't deserve her," he mumbled, without intending to. "Of course you don't. Neither do I deserve my wife. It's an unfair fact of life that the worst men end up with the best women.

He couldn't change the fact of what he was, nor would he be able to shield Amelia from all the arrows that would be aimed at the wife of a gypsy. But he would be damned if he would let her make her way through a merciless world without him.

Escort Mr. Ravenel up to my private apartments, where it seems I'll be giving counsel to yet another of my daughter's tormented suitors. This must be a penance for my misspent youth.

Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind.

Nothing is worse than breaking the trust of someone who depends on your protection.

They exchanged a brief grin and Westcliff left the room. "Arrogant, high-handed creature," Lillian remarked, her smile lingering as she watched the earl's departure. "God, I adore him.

These are marks of a life well lived, and risks taken, and miracles you brought into the world. They're signs of having loved and been loved.

So soon? But I sup pose that is only to be expected. Lord Ramsay will want to see his estate." "Yes, Mrs. Hunt." Leo said. "I adore bucolic settings. One can never view too many sheep.

He stared at her the way he used to in the days of their youth, his eyes lit with open yearning.

There's no such thing as an old maid.' 'Wh-what woould you call a middle-aged lady who's never married?' 'A woman with standards?

los misterios de la atracción no siempre podían explicarse mediante la lógica. A veces, las fisuras de dos almas separadas pueden ser lo que las une.

And although there were countless single dads who were raising daughters, no one could deny that there were milestones that a girl wanted a mother for.

It is one of my failings, to love beautiful things so dearly.

No one had ever told her that love could make every cell in one's body hurt.

He couldn't stand by and do nothing. Something inside him had been let out of its cage, and it wouldn't go back in until he'd made the world pay for hurting Cassandra. When he thought of what she might be feeling, how frightened and furious and wounded she must be... a strange and terrible emotion twisted all through him. He wanted Cassandra in his arms. He wanted to shield her from all this damned ugliness.

I overwhelm even myself.

Why does everyone always claim women are illogical when men are a hundred times more so? First they want something, then they don't, then they make irrational decisions based on secrets they won't explain and no one is supposed to question them because a man's word is final.

do you know what lying has in common with bullfighting?" "No, sir." "If you can't do it well, it's better not to do it at all.

If there's one thing every man loves to do, it's telling a woman how to do something.

Daisy, love," he whispered, "You're so soft…so dainty…where shall I touch you? Here? Or here…" "There," she sobbed, as his fingers slid to just the right spot. "Yes…oh, there…

Heath had been there to help her, letting her draw from his strength. Did she have enough strength to sustain him in the same way?

They had known each other intimately, as husband and wife, countless times, He had held her with tenderness and passion, but never with such rampant wildness.

Amanda hated it that Jack smelled so much better than any other man she knew. If only she could bottle the essence and pour it on some other man.

Hooray for me, I'm so very lucky. Not only do I have the biggest piece of cake, it's a corner piece with a sugar-paste flower on top, and everyone else is sick with envy.