Quotes from Lisa Kleypas

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.