Quotes by Lisa Kleypas

“Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.”

“One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.”

“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”

“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasnt about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

“Inti dari hubungan adalah memiliki seseorang saat kita membutuhkannya.”

“I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it’s in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes...” His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. Or at least that was how Poppy felt about it.”

“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”

“Cam held her closer. Marry me, Amelia. Youre what I want. Youre my fate. One hand slid to the back of her head, gripping the braids and ribbons to keep her mouth upturned. Say yes. He nibbled at her lips, licked at them, opened them. He kissed her until she writhed in his arms, her pulse racing. Say it, Amelia, and save me from ever having to spend a night with another woman. Ill sleep indoors. Ill get a haircut. God help me, I think Id even carry a pocket watch if it pleased you.”

“There are some experiences in life they havent invented the right words for.”

“You seem to think you have a choice, Cam said. But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.”

“I didnt want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldnt take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadnt told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.”

“There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?”

“I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined”

“But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I wont be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.”

“It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.”

“Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?”

“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”