Lisa Kleypas
It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.Collection: Significant Things
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.Collection: Communication
I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.Collection: People
I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.Collection: Body
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Eye
If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.Collection: Long
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 TravisCollection: Men
- No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.Collection: Lips
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.Collection: Powerful
You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores.Collection: Smell
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.Collection: Teenager
What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn’t belong anywhere?Collection: Memories
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.Collection: Storm
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Art
I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.Collection: Love You
There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.Collection: Promise
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.Collection: Cutting
I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.Collection: Sorrow
There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.Collection: Romance
Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?Collection: Romance
I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined.Collection: Romance
You can say whatever you like to me. I’m your oyster.Collection: Romance
Courting sometimes has the unpleasant side effect of marriage.Collection: Romance
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.Collection: Romance
Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don’t see what’s so alarming about that.Collection: Romance
You may not know this, but talking about mathematics eliminates any possibility of being kissed in the first place.Collection: Romance
Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.Collection: Romance
You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.Collection: Romance
I do appreciate, Ernestine, that your first instinct is not to prevent me from doing something scandalous, but to help me get away with it.Collection: Romance