Lisa Kleypas
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.Collection: Moving Forward
Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.Collection: People
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.Collection: Childhood
Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?Collection: Holiday
What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people." "No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.Collection: People
There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord?Collection: Fire
Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Men
Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.Collection: Things In Life
Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.Collection: Comfort
Be happy, honey. No one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm keeping one little piece of your heart for myself. And if you ever want it back.. .you know where to find it.Collection: Heart
Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?Collection: People
There is no peace in povertyCollection: Poverty
If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.Collection: Doors
Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.Collection: Rude
Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.Collection: Hands
I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.Collection: Wish
As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.Collection: Track
Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.Collection: Single
If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.Collection: Calling The Shots
Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the exchange.Collection: Sex
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. -SaraCollection: Thinking
You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.Collection: Space
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 JonesCollection: Eye
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.Collection: Meek
Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?Collection: Worry
I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.Collection: Crush
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.Collection: Love Is
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.Collection: Book
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.Collection: Writing
Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek," Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra." "My dream date.Collection: Dream
The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.Collection: Falling In Love
Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.Collection: Stars
I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to MadelineCollection: Long
When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.Collection: Hypocrisy
Some folks are happier not being saved.Collection: Folks
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.Collection: Pain
Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucy’s nose as if she was a child. “Friends are the support bras of life. We don’t let each other down. Right?Collection: Children
I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.Collection: Kissing
One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.Collection: Stills
I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.Collection: Kids
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.Collection: Hate
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.Collection: Writing
We may run into Kevin,” Lucy said gloomily. “She’s hoping to run into Kevin,” Zoë assured her. Justine smiled grimly. “Preferably with my car.Collection: Running
...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.Collection: Men
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?Collection: Mean
No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.Collection: People
These impossible women! How they do get around us!Collection: Impossible
They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.Collection: Mother