Lisa Kleypas Quotes - Page 8

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• It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction … you touch her skin and it’s the best skin you’ve ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she’s interesting even when she’s doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level.

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  Crazy, Knowing Everything, Smell

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• 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.

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  Morning, Sunday, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Promise, Made

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel”, p.99, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Father, Hair, Dollars

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.68, St. Martin's Press

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• I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

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  Sadness, Done, God Knows

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.275, Macmillan

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• ...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.

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  Hands, Arms, Littles

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.81, St. Martin's Press

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• The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.

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  Father, Book, Men

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• I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

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  Would Be, Tomorrow, Left

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.324, Macmillan

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• He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.

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  Heart, My Heart, Mines

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Smooth Talking Stranger: Number 3 in series”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky. I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals That's not ruthless?

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  Sky, Goal, Scorpions

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.21, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Fate, Heaven, Sitting

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• Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.” “Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.

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  Heart, Eye, Laughing

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Years

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

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  Light, Darkness, Sparks

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.

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  Girlfriend, Party, Waiting

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.447, St. Martin's Press

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• I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

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  Hard Work, Choices, Want

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.455, St. Martin's Press

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• I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.

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  Men, Exhausted, Loving Him

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

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  People, Easy, Hard

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

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  Moving Forward, Emotion, Burden

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.477, St. Martin's Press

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• But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

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  Thinking, Opening Up, Hands

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man." "That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.

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  Men, Wife, Married

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.212, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Eight, Would Be, Favors

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

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  Levels, Depravity, Spinsters

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.6, St. Martin's Press

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• I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

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  Letting Go, Long, Absence

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

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  Mean, Spy, Identity

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