Lisa Kleypas Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Air, Giving, Soul

• Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kindness, Spring, Numbers

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Scandal in Spring”, p.15, Harper Collins

• ... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

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  Life, Giving, Needs

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.67, Macmillan

• Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

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  Heartbreak, Fate, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.549, St. Martin's Press

• I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

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  People, Giving, Lost

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.243, St. Martin's Press

• I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Giving, Mad, Gone

• Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.

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  Love You, Giving, Remember Something

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.279, Macmillan

• I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.

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  People, Giving, Causes

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.38, Hachette UK

• Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Passion, Winning, Broken

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Seduce Me At Sunrise: Number 2 in series”, p.238, Hachette UK

• 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

  Love You, Receiving Love, Skills

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.11, St. Martin's Press

• 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

  Believe, Dating Someone, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.122, St. Martin's Press

• I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way

  Lisa Kleypas

  Powerful, Thinking, Will To Survive

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

• The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn’t the end of the story it’s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.

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  Giving, Effort, Stories

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.146, Macmillan

• Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, People, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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