"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
"
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"For thousands of nights I dreamed making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do."
— Lisa Kleypas (Again The Magic)

"Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?"

"Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body."

"No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death."

- McKenna to Lady Aline"
— Lisa Kleypas (Again The Magic)

"Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. "
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

".."the next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found."
"
— Lisa Kleypas (It Happened One Autumn)

"I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis"
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue
Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears
will keep me from coming back to you."
— Lisa Kleypas (Again The Magic)

"Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows
that."
— Lisa Kleypas (Devil in Winter)

"The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment."
— Lisa Kleypas (Scandal in Spring)

""No more Dane," he eventually said with unnerving finality.

I tried to be funny. "I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him."

"It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.""
— Lisa Kleypas (Smooth Talking Stranger)

"Glaring at the doctor, Kev spoke in Romany. "Ka xlia ma pe tute." (I'm going to shit on you.)

"Which means," Rohan said hastily, " 'Please for­give the misunderstanding; let's part as friends.'"

"Te malavel les i menkiva," Kev added for good mea­sure. (May you die of a malignant wasting disease.)

"Roughly translated," Rohan said, "that means, 'May your garden be filled with fine, fat hedgehogs.' Which, I may add, is considered quite a blessing among the Rom.""
— Lisa Kleypas (Seduce Me at Sunrise)

"The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"No one had ever said such things to her before. People were intimidated by her self-possession and no-nonsense demeanor. No man would ever dream of calling her adorable, sweet, darling... and certainly no one had ever made her feel that way."
— Lisa Kleypas (Suddenly You)

"Darlin'...I know what you look like when you've been kissed."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"It was likely that no one had been surprised, however, as it was clear that Aline and Mckenna belonged together. There was something invisible and yet irrefutable that made them a couple. Perhaps it was the way both of them stole quick glances at each other when one though the other wasn't looking... glances of wonder and hunger."
— Lisa Kleypas (Again The Magic)

"Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families"
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business. "
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins."
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores."
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

""McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he is still so familiar. I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.""
— Lisa Kleypas (Again The Magic)

"A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do.
-Sara"
— Lisa Kleypas (Dreaming of You)

"So are you bisexual?" I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label.
"I guess I'm bipossible."he had said."
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

""Back to what? A guy who bails on you when you need him? What's Dane doing now that's more important than helping you? Fighting for the rights of endangered ferns?"

I stiffened and pushed away from him, irritation jolting me out of my fugue-state. "You have no right to judge Dane or my relationship with him."

Jack made a scoffing sound. "That half-assed excuse for a relationship was over the moment Dane told you not to bring the baby to Austin. You know what he should have said?...'Hell, yes, Ella, I'll stand by you no matter what you do. Shit happens. We'll make it work. Come home now and get in bed.'""
— Lisa Kleypas (Smooth Talking Stranger)

"I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word...the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask."
— Lisa Kleypas

"I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. But now I won't have to."
"Why not?" She asked softly.
"Because I'll see the blue of your eyes instead."
"How romantic you are," she murmured with a grin, kissing him gently. "But don't worry. I won't tell anyone."
— Lisa Kleypas (Seduce Me at Sunrise)

"The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. “I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined,” he said sourly."
— Lisa Kleypas (Secrets of a Summer Night)

"I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close."
— Lisa Kleypas (Again The Magic)

"Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"Some folks are happier not being saved."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"“I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.”

-Amanda to Jack"
— Lisa Kleypas (Suddenly You)

"I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I realized the problem: no one I knew would have come up with that day for me.

This is a man, I thought, who could break my heart."
— Lisa Kleypas (Smooth Talking Stranger)

"Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces."
— Lisa Kleypas

"“A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills…lost in endless slumber…”
“God, I envy him,” St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes.
"
— Lisa Kleypas (Devil in Winter)

""How do I look?" Amanda asked.
Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly.
She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.""
— Lisa Kleypas (Suddenly You)

"This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee."
— Lisa Kleypas (A Wallflower Christmas)

"How old are you? Twelve?"
"Fourteen & three quarters."
His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters."
"Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?"
"Seventeen and two fifths."
Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me."
-Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones"
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other. "
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have dies- literally chosen death- before breaking his word. "
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"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."
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want to be alone in a room with that guy, I thought. His gaze moved downward in lazy inspection, returned to my face, and he gave me one of those respectful nods that Texan men had raised to an art form. "
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"Todd? Are you still there?"

"Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship."
I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive Todd."

"It would help if you could tell me one thing that's wrong. One flaw. Bad breath? Warts? Some condition that requires anti fungal spray?"

"Would chest hair be a flaw?"

"Oh, yeah." Todd sounded relieved." I can't stand a chest rug. You can't see the chest cut."
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one."
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)

"He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure. "
— Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy)