Lisa Kleypas
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.Collection: Women
In this life and the next, you're my only hope at happiness.Collection: Next
Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.Collection: Letting Go
Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.Collection: Saws
A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.Collection: Soul
The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.Collection: Two
Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.Collection: Together
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.Collection: Stars
You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.Collection: Running
I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.Collection: Air
Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.Collection: Men
You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.Collection: Worst Enemy
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.Collection: Love
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.Collection: Heartbreak
Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.Collection: Forever
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.Collection: Men
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.Collection: Hands
I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.Collection: Mind
Make your choice and accept the consequences.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Two
If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.Collection: Ifs
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Love
There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.Collection: Bully
What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each otherCollection: Doe
There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn’t done... the paths you hadn’t taken, the things you hadn’t experienced.Collection: Taken
For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.Collection: Sexy
If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.Collection: Country
There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.Collection: Forgiveness
The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.Collection: Way
You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.Collection: Strength
I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.Collection: Thinking
I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.Collection: Believe
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?Collection: Beautiful
But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.Collection: Life
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.Collection: Hatred
If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.Collection: Mistake
But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.Collection: Known
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty JonesCollection: Men
I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.Collection: Love
Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Waiting
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.Collection: Boat
Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.Collection: Love You
Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, those dinners and holidays—I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you.” The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. “You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot…I love watching you deal with your family. You’ve always been everything I thought a woman should be. And I have wanted you every second of my life since we first met.Collection: Memories
Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.Collection: Wedding
It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.Collection: Fall
You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.Collection: Names
To put to rest any doubts you might have… I’m jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I’m jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I’m jealous of every moment you spend out of my sightCollection: Jealous
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.Collection: Mean