Blue-Eyed Devil Quotes

“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

“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

“Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“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

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

“I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?"
"For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...”
― 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

“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

“What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you."
"Why? Was kissing me that bad?"
A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I feel the curve of his smile against my skin. But as he lifts his head and looks into my eyes, his grin fades. "Haven . . . I don't know if I'm going to be a good father. What if I don't do it right?"
I am touched by Hardy's concern, his constant desire to be the man he thinks I deserve. Even when we disagree, I have no doubt that I am cherished. And respected. And I know that neither of us takes the other one for granted.
I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow. All the terrible things Hardy and I have gone through in our lives have created the spaces inside where happiness can live. Not to mention love. So much love that there doesn't seem to be room for bitterness in either of us.
"I think the fact that you're worrying about it at all," I say, "means you'll probably be great at it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Hardy! Hardy —” He had come for me. I nearly lost it then. In the wild torrent of relief and gratitude, there were at least a dozen things I wanted to tell him at once. But the first thing that came out was a fervent, “I'm so sorry I didn't have sex with you.”

I heard his low laugh. “I am too. But honey, there are a couple of maintenance guys with me who can hear every word we're saying.”

“I don't care,” I said desperately. “Get me out of here and I swear I'll sleep with you.”
― 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

“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

“I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.”

~ Haven Travis”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Falling hard and fast. And there didn't seem to be a thing I could do about it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Make your choice and accept the consequences.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.

“No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a lascivious dream. "I didn't know they still made them like that," he said....
"Cool, tough, retro-manly. The kind who only cries if someone just ran over their dog. The big chested guy we can indulge our pathetic Daddy complexes with.”
― 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

“He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Rebound guys are the best."
"They are?"
"They never even think of getting serious, because everyone knows you don't jump into a relationship right after a divorce. They just want to be your welcome wagon when you start having sex again. It's your time to experiment, girl!"
"The world is my petri dish," I said, raising my drink.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“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.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you
down with me."
My hand crept up to caress the rigid line of his jaw. "Why'd you change your mind?" I whispered.
"After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured . . . I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you."
And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Yeah, I knew," he finally said, his voice soft. "I always knew I'd do whatever it took. Living in a trailer park, running in a pack of barefoot kids . . . my whole life was already set out for me, and I sure as hell didn't like the looks of it. So I always knew I'd take my chance when I got it. And if it didn't come, I'd make something happen.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil